Trend-setting pizza chain will give back 5% of Monday’s sales every week
Even before they opened to the public, the local Pie Five Pizza restaurants have made a determined effort to support the life-saving work performed at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City. A total of $10,000 was donated to the hospital during last year’s grand openings of the Overland Park and Lenexa restaurants.
Now the trend-setting fast casual pizza chain is doubling down on its commitment with “Mercy Mondays at Pie Five.” Beginning April 7, and every Monday thereafter, Pie Five will donate five percent of all sales from local restaurants to the pediatric hospital. No ending date for the fundraising campaign has been set.
“The mission of Children’s Mercy is to never turn patients away, regardless of their financial situation,” said Kevin Goebel, Operating Partner of the Pie Five franchises in the Kansas City area. “Pie Five Pizza fully embraces that mission, which is why we’ve made the hospital the sole recipient of our grand opening fundraising as well as Mercy Mondays. We hope pizza lovers throughout the area will join us in supporting this extraordinary facility.”
Pie Five guests can also learn more about how Children’s Mercy is making a meaningful difference in the lives of children and their families. Both restaurants will be posting photos of young patients and a brief message about their medical story, along with quarterly updates of the funds raised for the hospital by the restaurant and its guests.
“Everyone at Pie Five Pizza, from the Goebel family on down, has been extremely generous,” said Jenea Oliver, Vice President, Department of Philanthropy at Children’s Mercy. “Their support has helped us improve the lives of so many wonderful children already, and the Mercy Mondays promotion is sure to do even more good. We’re grateful for Pie Five’s commitment to our hospital and, in turn, the greater Kansas City community.”
Pie Five Pizza restaurants are located at 12154 W. 95th St. in the Oak Park Commons shopping center in Lenexa and 13366 Metcalf Ave. in the Shoppes at Deer Creek Woods in Overland Park.
At Pie Five, guests can choose from more than a million combinations of handcrafted pizzas and a variety of specialty pie choices prepared in less than five minutes on one of four crusts all for one low price. The rapidly expanding chain is capitalizing on growing consumer demand for fresh dining options and artisan pizzas in stylish environments without the wait.
Pie Five has been named a 2013 Top 50 Restaurant Brand of the Year, a 2012 Hot Concepts winner by Nation’s Restaurant News, and one of “10 Hot New Restaurant Chains from Established Brands” by Forbes.com.
The leading brand in the rapidly growing fast casual pizza segment has 13 locations in Texas, two each in Kansas and Utah, and one each in North Carolina and Florida. More than 160 announced franchise units are currently under contract in Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington, DC.
To learn more about Children’s Mercy , visit www.childrensmercy.org.
Pie Five Pizza Co. is a subsidiary of Pizza Inn Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZI), headquartered in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas. Pie Five is a trend-setting, fast-casual concept offering individual handcrafted pizzas with fresh ingredients made to order and prepared in less than five minutes. First introduced in 2011, Pie Five Pizza currently has 19 locations in five states with more than 160 announced franchised units under contract in 12 states and the District of Columbia. For more information, please visit www.piefivepizza.com.
Children’s Mercy, located in Kansas City, Mo., is one of the nation’s top pediatric medical centers. The 354-bed, not-for-profit hospital provides care for children from birth through the age of 21, and has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals.” For the third time in a row, Children’s Mercy has achieved Magnet nursing designation, awarded to fewer than seven percent of all hospitals nationally, for excellence in quality care. Its faculty of 600 pediatricians and researchers across more than 40 subspecialties are actively involved in clinical care, pediatric research, and educating the next generation of pediatric subspecialists. For more than a century, Children’s Mercy has provided the highest level of medical care to every child who passes through its doors, made possible through generous community support. For more information about Children’s Mercy and its research, visit childrensmercy.org. For breaking news and videos, follow us on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
