Buffalo, NY – Pizzas 4 Patriots has teamed up with Rich Products Corporation, one of the nation’s leading pizza suppliers to the foodservice industry, and global shipping provider DHL Express, to hand off piping hot pizzas to troops serving abroad. The 5,000 pizzas will touch down in Afghanistan just in time for Super Bowl Sunday so that soldiers can enjoy a taste of home while watching the NFL championship game.
“Having served overseas, I personally know that having a taste of home on Super Bowl Sunday is a powerful experience for troops stationed abroad,” said Retired Master Sergeant Mark Evans, founder of Pizzas 4 Patriots. “I am grateful Rich Products Corporation, and to DHL Express for making this experience possible for our brave servicemen and women.”
In its seventh year, the non-profit organization Pizzas 4 Patriots will send enough pizza to feed every U.S. soldier stationed in Afghanistan.
“Pizza 4 Patriots heard about Rich’s new pizza topping capability in Crest Hill, IL, and asked us shortly before Christmas if would be willing to provide fully-topped pizzas for a Super Bowl pizza party in Afghanistan,” said Donna Reeves-Collins, Managing Director, Foodservice Marketing, Rich Products Corporation. The resounding answer was, “Yes!”
“Our Crest Hill team quickly put together a plan, and arranged to prepare 291 insulated containers, each holding fifteen 16” cheese pizzas and enough dry ice to keep them frozen until
they reached their first stop (Kuwait) en route to Afghanistan,” said Reeves-Collins. “One of our key values at Rich’s is Bettering our Communities, and there is nothing better we could think of than helping Pizza 4 Patriots to make a positive difference in the lives of our service men and women stationed so far away from home.”
DHL Express employees have loaded the delicious pizzas onto direct U.S. flights to the Middle East, re-icing the pies along the route and tracking the shipments every step of the way. The pizza will be distributed to Bagram Airbase and then on to various Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. DHL Express will provide final, door-to-door delivery of the pies, working closely with the U.S. military to ensure the pizzas are delivered fresh and ready to eat at the various military bases.
Since 2008, Pizzas 4 Patriots has sent nearly 50,000 pizzas in support of U.S. military personnel overseas, including a record-setting pizza delivery confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2012.
Source: Rich Products Corporation
