The owners and employees at Sauce Pizzeria are still making as many as 400 pies per day. The pies are going straight to hospitals to feed health care workers pulling 14 to 18-hour shifts as they remain on the front lines of the coronavirus fight.
Many of those nurses, doctors, and other medical staffers are too busy taking care of their packed hospital rooms to think about eating. So Sauce Pizzeria has been delivering their pies to 40 different hospitals in all five boroughs, all for free.
Then when Sauce Pizzeria’s landlord heard what they were doing at the pizza shop, he jumped into help by freezing rent payments for the next three months. Not only that, his company also donated more than $20,000 to help the pizzeria get more pizzas to medical workers.
Adam Elzer who owns of the Sauce Pizzeria’s told NBC New York, “It made it a lot easier for us to keep doing what we’re doing and to feel really good about that. 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.”
