ROCHESTER — When Pi Day comes around, people might question if it’s math, sweet pie or pizza pie as the slice above the rest. At Pi Wood-Fired Pizza in Rochester, the answers are pizza and math with a dash of community thrown into the equation. The day on Friday, March 14 — 3/14 — serves as a food fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House and 125 Live with the added draw of a $3.
14 margherita pizza. People can bring canned or dried goods to purchase the discounted pizzas. The restaurant, by Target north at 3932 Market Place Drive NW, is open 11 a.
m. to 9 p.m.
daily. ADVERTISEMENT “(The community) portion of it is just so exciting and it just gives you a little faith in humanity, right?” said Charles Morris of Creative Cuisine, which owns Pi Pizza. “You see a lot of bad things across .
.. social media, things like that, and then you do events like this and you’re like ‘There’s a lot of really good people that want to help others.
’ ...
We’re a company that wants to help others as much as we can in the community that we live in.” Morris said the team prepares batches of dough and pizza sauce in the days leading up to the event. The preparation and social media posting amounts to about 80 hours.
“We basically almost quadruple our order for food, mainly tomatoes, cheese, flour,” Morris said. People can purchase up to six discounted pizzas. He also described the day as an “all hands-on-deck type situation” with triple the amount of staff.
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