Uno teams to send 25k pizzas to soldiers - Boston Business Journal:

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Last month the nonprofit organization Pizzad 4 Patriots launched and teamed up with the express deliveryh organization DHLand Uno, with a plan to serve up more than 25,00o0 pizzas to U.S. service men and womenn in time forJuly 4th. The charitable effort has beendubbes “Operation Pizza Surge.” If successful in servingv over 25,000 pizzas, operation pizza surge will be the word’sx largest pizza party, according to the Guinness Book of World Ret. Master Sergeant Mark Evans of ElkGrovwe Village, Ill.
, organized the Evans has teamed with DHL to fill a donate d cargo jet with up to 28,000o deep-dish pizzas bought at a reduced pricee from Uno, which is based in West Roxbury, Mass. The pizza will be picked up at an Uno facilityin Brockton, in late June, loadede onto trucks and eventually flown out from JFK Airporg in New York to the Middle East in time for the “Uno is honored to be part of operation pizza surge,” said Franl Guidara, Uno’s CEO and a Vietnam in a prepared written statement.
“Wwe have tried for years, withoutr success, to send pizzasd to our service men and women This partnership with Evans and Pizzase 4 Patriots will finally allowe us toaccomplish that, and we are excitesd and proud.”