Small Miracles
Those of you outside the Denver area may not know this, but it snowed here yesterday. A lot. Considering the fact that it was in the mid-70's up until yesterday, 8 inches of snow was about the last thing we expected to wake up and see. We here at the cafe immediately thought to ourselves that it was going to be a slow day, and so we leisurely took our time getting ready for the day. That is, until the phone rang.
The caller on the phone wondered if it was possible to get 10 pizzas to go, and could they be ready to pick up at Noon. It was only 10AM, and even though we typically only sell 4-5 pizzas on the weekdays, since we had plenty of notice we told him it wouldn't be a problem. Brad got busy making extra pizza dough, and Libby got to shredding the organic mozzarella. We happened to have a great volunteer named Patrick helping out for the morning, so we were staffed up for the boost in business. Even when they called back to change the number of pies from 10 to 12, we thought we were well prepared. Well prepared, except we had nothing to send out the pizzas in.
Previously, we would just wrap up the pizza on one of our large dinner plates and just ask the patron to bring the plate back whenever they could. However, this had only happened a handful of times. Never had we had such a large order for pies to go, and we didn't even have enough large plates to send out 12 pizzas even if we wanted to.
Coincidentally, we had just placed an order for plain white pizza boxes a few days earlier, but didn't expect to see them for at least a week or two. So when the UPS man showed up with a large package a mere 30 minutes before the pizzas were due to be picked up, we were ecstatic. Thank goodness for small miracles!
The caller on the phone wondered if it was possible to get 10 pizzas to go, and could they be ready to pick up at Noon. It was only 10AM, and even though we typically only sell 4-5 pizzas on the weekdays, since we had plenty of notice we told him it wouldn't be a problem. Brad got busy making extra pizza dough, and Libby got to shredding the organic mozzarella. We happened to have a great volunteer named Patrick helping out for the morning, so we were staffed up for the boost in business. Even when they called back to change the number of pies from 10 to 12, we thought we were well prepared. Well prepared, except we had nothing to send out the pizzas in.
Previously, we would just wrap up the pizza on one of our large dinner plates and just ask the patron to bring the plate back whenever they could. However, this had only happened a handful of times. Never had we had such a large order for pies to go, and we didn't even have enough large plates to send out 12 pizzas even if we wanted to.
Coincidentally, we had just placed an order for plain white pizza boxes a few days earlier, but didn't expect to see them for at least a week or two. So when the UPS man showed up with a large package a mere 30 minutes before the pizzas were due to be picked up, we were ecstatic. Thank goodness for small miracles!
You make many "small miracles" all the time for others, so it's no surprise when one comes your way!
Keep the miracles coming!
Peggy
PS I heard the interview on the Indiana radio station. It seems the word is spreading. Some day, I hope to taste one of your specialty dishes.
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I just read the article in the LA Times. It's wonderful to hear such a creative solution to our hunger problem. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you for providing a ray of sunshine amidst all the gloom in the news (Los Angeles Times this morning). Bless your hearts.
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Sunshine it is! I'd enjoy the news more if I could find articles about people doing good things. We should stop buying/reading newspapers until this happens! What you put out there comes back to you!
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I am a mom of two in Rogers, Arkansas and read the article about you from the LA Times in our paper. I am so moved by your giving spirits and determination. It is so encouraging to hear of great people like you actually DOING what they believe to make the world a better place. I talked to my boys (4 & 6) about you and your great idea for a restaurant, one's response whas "Why don't all restaurants do it like that? We don't make people pay when they eat dinner at our house."
Anyway, thank you for being an inspiration as well as a positive change in the world. Since we'll porbably not be fortunate to dine with you, our family has made a donation so that someone else can.
You are making a difference!
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how can i help you, if i want to learn S Bailey to sent some money for you from china ,can you write your address down here~~someday~~
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