Posted on 08/31/2019 7:13:10 PM PDT by Morgana
A Little Caesars restaurant in Fargo, North Dakota is capturing hearts and feeding the hungry with a new policy they posted with a sign in their window.
A new idea came to General Manager, Michelle Lussier, after she noticed an ongoing problem: people were eating leftovers from the store dumpster. Lussier decided to approach the situation with a surprising solution, offering free slices of pizza inside the store.
She recognized that the homeless are human beings the same as everybody else, and deserve dignity, respect, and compassion.
The sign hung on the drive-through window reads:
To the person going through our trash for their next meal, youre a human being and worth more than a meal from a dumpster. Please come in during operating hours for a couple slices of hot pizza and a cup of water at no charge. No questions asked.
In a video about the new policy, Lussier offers hope. Instead of merely thoughts and prayers, she offers something real: delicious pizza.
Dont feel embarrassed if youre hungry and you dont want to do what others do, you know stand on the corner for handouts, says Lussier.
You feel down about that, youre more than welcome to come here and grab a couple slices.
According to Valley News Live, the restaurant also donates leftover pizza to the local food pantry and has a donation box inside the store that benefits the homeless in the area.
This restaurant is extending goodwill to the homeless. In return, they endear themselves to the community with some good public relations, earning well-deserved customer loyalty.
See the video from Valley News Live below:
What a wonderful gesture! If more people thought and behaved like the management of this restaurant I have no doubt we would shape a better world. Please share this story if you agree you might inspire someone out there!
*video on link*
“What could go wrong with offering free stuff to an unknown individual who eats out of a dumpster?”
10,000 people showing up saying “I’m the one who eats from your dumpster, gimme my pizza.” She’ll go out of business in two weeks unless people like you step up with serious bucks. Don’t believe it? Come see how many beggars we have in Sarasota after a welcoming city council said “it’s our job to care for the homeless.”
Mama always said, don’t feed stray cats. They’re about to find out why.
it really is awful pizza...
And what could go wrong...
150 lefties show up claiming to be the dumpster diver for free pizza...thats what lol
Cicis even beats it, but it makes a turd.
Other than a thousand “unknown individuals” a day showing up for their free pizza?
Absolutely nothing.
Almost did that for family dinner tonight, as I saw the story a few days ago. Maybe for Sunday dinner. :)
Yep
Two hundred bums and drug addicts are leaving San Francisco - they've found a new mark.
"Hot n' Ready" pies go to the dumpster after they've been under the heat lamps for a specified length of time. That's often more pies than people might think that go to the dumpster.
At what point in that process do you think Christian Charity should be permitted?
Only after the pie has been under the lamp too long or after it's in the dumpster?
Or is Christian Charity totally out of the question for anyone other than the CEO or Chairman of the Board and the pizza remains the property of Little Caesars until a properly designated representative of the local government removes the pie from the garbage?
Are you kidding me? Why are there 10,000 homeless in SF? They're given free meals, free gift cards, free showers, free bathrooms, free bikes, free needles, free condoms, free everything. All you have to do to keep the free train rolling is not go to the government shelter.
That said, she should serve the whole slice, not just the bottoms.
Wonder if there was a bear claw out there also?
She could put out a tip jar to fund the occasional extra slice. Just watch for those "taking back" the "unseen" tips.
Oh, and ya gotta pay in bills, not pennies.
Any more?
BTW, Little Ceasars put my little upstart pizzeria in Inkster, Michigan almost 40 years ago out of business by opening near me and selling worse pizza at a lower price, the bastards! Killed me. Well, hurt me, real bad. But I came back, baby! If you put everything I've done since into one afternoon, it's decent!
Maybe I should have had a Frogger...
I had Q*Bert.
If the owner is fine with it, I think that is great.
Offering product that would normally be paid for would not be something anyone but the owner should approve of, in my opinion. If they do, I think that is just fine.
It is my impression that these types of things are franchised, so if the franchisee wants to give away product, that is their business.
Private charity, bless ‘em!
Opinions are like...
Everybody’s got one.
“This will not end well.”
Something about biting the hands that feeds you?
Or perhaps this scenario?
Now it’s one, but soon they will be able to easily count the number of bums in Fargo by simply going to that pizza joint, where they will find them eating, drinking, loitering and using their bathrooms.
Why pay for a piece of pizza when you can get it for free?
I have to admit-I love good pizza. But I also like nearly any pizza, even if it is greasy and I know I may regret it later.
I do believe I have a wider acceptance of eatability for pizza than any other food. But I have had pizza I couldn’t eat, so...I do have limits...:)
I used to have that same feeling about Chinese food, but I have had some that was so bad that now, if it is swill, I can’t eat it even if I am three sheets to the wind.
Americans waste TONS of food.
I say bless those who feed the hungry.
When hubby & I were first starting out & starving our way thru college, I worked nights at an off-campus convenience store.
I was supposed to pull expired lunchmeats & cheeses, pre-wrapped sandwiches, etc, out of the cooler, open & save the packages for return credit, but throw out the contents.
My mama didn’t teach me to waste food, so I started bringing a Tupperware dish & saving the contents to take home.
My store manager had said it was ok.
Regional manager shows up, finds out the food isn’t being thrown out, & orders that I’m to be fired.
America. What a country.
Soon after, hubby & I moved into a garage apartment. The upstairs window overlooked the dumpster behind a McDonalds where, at closing time every night, a tied garbage bag of leftover burgers— wrapped up in little boxes— was deposited.
Not only did we eat, we went into business. We’d fill up our book bags in the morning & hawk ‘em for 25 cents on campus.
I’ve had a lot (when almost everything worked for me) and I’ve had very little (when nothing seems to work for me). These are verses I think of from time-to-time:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+16%3A19-31&version=KJV
Luke 16:19-31 King James Version
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
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