Hurtful pranks, both insulting and financially injurious, appear to be surging these days. Even in the restaurant industry.
In fact, those often are dine-and-dash offenses where a party arrives, consumes sometimes hundreds of dollars in food and drink orders, then literally runs out of the restaurant and away.
Of course there are variations on a them.
But one pizza shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, turned what was a harmful prank into a blessing for nearby hospital workers.
It is the Cowboy State Daily that documented the turnaround enabled by L’Osteria Mondello, the pizza shop, to go from harm to help.
What happened was that someone ordered 18 hot pizzas, with an accompanying bill of about $300.
And then never showed up.
Pizza shop owners called the number of the person who made the order: It was someone who knew nothing about any pizza order.
The report explains how L’Osteria Mondello owner Dave Agovic explained the night was busy anyway, with multiple orders for multiple pizzas.
There was an order for 12, and another for seven or eight.
“I had like over 40 pizzas in the same time,” Agovic told Cowboy State Daily, confirming he temporarily stopped taking orders.
The person ordering the 18 “wanted them fast,” the report said, explaining they were for some sort of “children’s wrestling club.”
Then no one came, and the phone call failed.
Agovic explained he hasn’t required payment in advance because “We trust people.”
But the pizzas!
His staff suggested ideas, and Agovic trumped them all: “Why don’t we deliver it to the hospital?”
Just at that moment, a former worker stopped by say hello, and Ryan Lemley immediately volunteered to help with the delivery.
Agovic explained, “They are very hardworking people and they help save a lot of lives around. And I was like, let’s donate, let’s reward them.”
