{"id":57231,"date":"2015-07-19T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T07:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=57231"},"modified":"2015-07-19T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T07:09:34","slug":"pay-it-forward-with-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57231","title":{"rendered":"Pay It Forward with Pizza!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHave you heard of the concept of Pay It Forward, or maybe Random Acts of Kindness (RAOKs)? Simply put, they are a gesture of love for strangers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosasfreshpizza.com\/\">Rosa&#8217;s Fresh Pizza<\/a> in Philadelphia is making the concept easy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57233\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57233\" class=\"wp-image-57233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/piza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pizza pies via rosasfreshpizza.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019re hungry in the city of brotherly love, whose poverty rates are some of the worst in our nation, you can grab a slice of pizza from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosasfreshpizza.com\/\">Rosa\u2019s Fresh Pizza<\/a>, because someone else has already purchased it for you. Owner Mason Wartman says it all started with a customer who was inspired by an Italian coffee-house tradition called <em>caff\u00e8 sospeso<\/em> (suspended coffee) that began more than 100 years ago, where customers pre-purchase cups of coffee for less fortunate customers who come after them. Wartman wrote his extra purchase on a Post-it note and stuck it on the wall behind the register to be redeemed by the next homeless patron to enter the store. Word spread, and more and more people began to participate, until the wall behind the register blossomed with Post-it notes, each signifying one person\u2019s act of kindness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57234\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57234\" class=\"wp-image-57234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/post-it-pizza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">post its via rosasfreshpizza.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wartman kept track of the pre-purchased slices with Post-its until he reached about 500, when the sheer volume forced him to select another method of accounting. But the wall of encouraging messages continues to build. Rosa\u2019s has provided almost 10,000 slices of pizza to Philadelphia\u2019s hungry, and 10% of their business is now represented by pre-purchased slices. Wartman says some customers who were helped by this generosity and have since found employment have returned to the shop to pay it forward for others in similar situations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57235\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57235\" class=\"wp-image-57235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pizza-and-post-its.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"217\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">post its and patrons via rosasfreshpizza.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to donate a slice from afar, you can at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosasfreshpizza.com\/\"> RosasFreshPizza.com<\/a>. Or investigate the possibility of donating at your own local pizza joint. Together, we can feed the world, one slice at a time.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of the concept of Pay It Forward, or maybe Random Acts of Kindness (RAOKs)? Simply put, they are a gesture of love for strangers. Rosa&#8217;s Fresh Pizza in Philadelphia is making the concept easy. 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