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Pay it forward pizza restaurant.─── 12:33 Sat, 17 Jan 2015
An innovative pizza restaurant has started a scheme where customers can ‘pay it forward’ and buy a homeless person a slice.
Rosa’s Fresh Pizza in Philadelphia is known for its $1 slices and has provided 8,500 portions to homeless people in the last nine months.
Rosa’s owner, Mason Wartman, explained the pay it forward scheme came about when a customer randomly asked if they could buy a homeless person a slice.
The 27-year-old entrepeneur simply ‘took his dollar and ran out and got some Post-it notes and put one up to signify that a slice was purchased.’
Rosa’s Fresh Pizza in Philadelphia is known for its $1 slices and has provided 8,500 portions to homeless people in the last nine months.
Rosa’s owner, Mason Wartman, explained the pay it forward scheme came about when a customer randomly asked if they could buy a homeless person a slice.
The 27-year-old entrepeneur simply ‘took his dollar and ran out and got some Post-it notes and put one up to signify that a slice was purchased.’
Until he reached 500 slices, he kept track of this phenomenon using the Post-it notes until the sheer number of customers willing to participate forced him to log the charitable deeds using the register.
Here are just a few examples of the messages that people left, as reported by NPR: ‘I just want to thank everyone that donated to Rosa’s.
‘It gave me a place to eat everyday and the opportunity to get back on my feet.
‘I start a new job tomorrow!
Here are just a few examples of the messages that people left, as reported by NPR: ‘I just want to thank everyone that donated to Rosa’s.
‘It gave me a place to eat everyday and the opportunity to get back on my feet.
‘I start a new job tomorrow!
The owner, Mason Wartman, a former Wall Street equity researcher, making a pizza.
Source: Metro.co.uk
