Mason Wartman was 27 when he left his high-paying job on Wall Street to start up a pizza business, named Rosa’s Fresh Pizza in 2013.
His pizza shop was not like any other in town, as he challenged other pizza shops nationally with his ‘pay-it-forward’ initiative. Mason would write motivational quotes like ‘you can do it’ on post-it notes and stick it on one of his walls. Additionally, customers could prepay for a pizza and paste a post-it note on the wall. Someone in need grab and use one of the sticky notes at the counter.
His pizza shop was not like any other in town, as he challenged other pizza shops nationally with his ‘pay-it-forward’ initiative. Mason would write motivational quotes like ‘you can do it’ on post-it notes and stick it on one of his walls. Additionally, customers could prepay for a pizza and paste a post-it note on the wall. Someone in need grab and use one of the sticky notes at the counter.
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Mason managed to serve 8,500 pizza slices to the homeless people with this initiative. A man even wrote on one of his sticky notes: “God bless you. Because of you I ate off this plate, the only thing I ate all day.”
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Rosa’s Fresh Pizza also appeared on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ where Ellen presented Mason with a $10,000 check to help with Mason’s cause.
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