Since the protests began in September, nearby restaurants have experienced a strange uptick in phone calls and online orders, many of them coming from other parts of the world. Telly Liberatos, 29, the owner of Liberatos Pizza on Cedar Street in the Financial District, said he has received orders from places like Germany, France, England, Italy and Greece, as well as every region of the United States.Upscale dessert course?? Money pouring in from all over the USA (but especially California) and overseas (mostly from EU countries)?
Its been nonstop, he said. The phones dont stop ringing. People from California order the most at one time. Someone from the West Coast had called in the biggest delivery: he wanted 50 pizzas dispatched to the park.
Now and then, the parks kitchen gets lucky. Bob Reich, who once worked for Birdbath Bakery in Manhattan, appeared in the encampment a few minutes before 7 p.m. bearing bags of freshly baked cookies. The ingredients are as organic as we can get them, he said. The first few protesters in line for dinner would, it seemed, enjoy an upscale dessert course. Why had Mr. Reich made the effort? Because I support what people are doing here, he said. And who doesnt love a cookie?
It's bad enough these nuts are anti-American Marxists, but their means of support isn't even American.
Well, at least the tax payers get a break. Let someone else feed the scroungers for a change.
And this:
"Ms. Ferrara said they had begun looking for a nearby kitchen they could use to prepare all the perishable food coming in; that might reduce the need to rely on takeout.We do have it in our budget to rent a space in the area
Kinda the same places Obama got all those little unidentified campaign contributions from, huh?