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New York Pizzeria Donates Pizza to Hospitals Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Inspires Landlord to Help
A kindhearted pizza place in New York City has been feeding health care and hospital workers who are working to battle the coronavirus pandemic. This selfless gesture then inspired the restaurant’s landlord to give free rent.
According to NBC New York, all of the pizza that Sauce Pizzeria makes goes straight to hospitals to feed health care workers pulling 14- or even 18-hour shifts. Adam Elzer, the owner of the pizza place, says his restaurant usually makes 400 pizzas per day.
“They’re running around from room to room, the hospitals are packed, and if we’re not sending food, a lot of them are not eating,” Elzer said. “Basically anywhere that we get a note from a nurse or a doctor telling us that they’re in need, we figure out a way to get them on the schedule and then we deliver to that hospital.”
The pizza place reportedly delivered pizzas to over 40 different hospitals across the city's five boroughs. Elzer allegedly got the idea after a nurse friend told him that she didn’t have time to eat lunch one day.
Inspiring Others
Landlord gives New York pizzeria free rent for donating hundreds of pizzas a day to overwhelmed hospitals https://t.co/GKW0N0yejz
— FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) April 4, 2020
Ben Kraus of A&E Real Estate Management, Sauce Pizzeria's landlord, then learned about the pizza place’s kind gesture.
“The real estate company donated $20,000 to the pizzeria and froze rent payments for the next three months,” said Fox News.
“It made it a lot easier for us to keep doing what we’re doing and to feel really good about that,” Elzer said. “Pizza makes people happy. That’s what this started from, that we wanted to give them some reason to smile when it’s kinda hard to smile with what they’re currently doing,” he added.
Kraus told NBC New York that he saw what Adam was doing on social media. After that, he immediately knew they needed to help Elzer. “We set up Adam with logistics to be able to deliver en mass to hospitals all over New York City,” he then continued.
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