🍕 The Best
Pizza Shop

Pizza With a Purpose

59 Pizzas. Nine Hours. More Than $2,000 Raised.

On July 25, 2026, I turned my home kitchen and garage in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, into a temporary pizza shop to support the Slice Out Hunger Summer Slice-a-Thon.

What began with a goal of raising $1,000 became a sold-out community event that raised $2,032 to help fight food insecurity.

59 Pizzas Made
$2,032 Raised for Slice Out Hunger
<48 Hours to Sell Out
Slice Out Hunger Summer Slice-a-Thon recap from The Best Pizza Shop

Watch the Full Recap

I turned my home into a pizza shop for nearly nine hours

This video follows the complete experience—from planning and dough preparation to scheduled pickups, unexpected challenges, generous customers, and the final fundraising total.

The Final Results

Our community more than doubled the original goal

I began the fundraiser hoping to raise $1,000. Before the first pizza was even made, the online ordering event had sold out in less than 48 hours and donations had already pushed us beyond that goal.

59 Total Pizzas
$2,032 Total Raised
203% Of the Original Goal
9 Hours of Pizza Pickups
The most meaningful part of the day was not the final number. It was seeing people drive from across the region, support a cause they believed in, and gather around pizza to help people they may never meet.

How It Started

An Instagram post became a sold-out pizza event

The idea was simple: offer a limited number of scheduled pizza pickups from my home, ask people to support Slice Out Hunger, and see how much good we could accomplish together.

The response was much greater than I expected. Every pickup time sold out in under 48 hours, families reserved pizzas throughout the day, and donations continued arriving before, during, and after the event.

Some people drove as far as an hour to pick up pizza. Others donated even when they could not attend. Customers shared the event with friends, posted their pizzas online, and helped turn a backyard fundraiser into something much bigger.

What It Required

Dough, scheduling, preparation, and a lot of help

Making 59 pizzas from a home kitchen required several days of dough preparation, carefully staggered pickup times, donated ingredients, backup plans, a temporary garage pickup area, and almost nine continuous hours of baking.

Each pizza was made individually, baked in my home oven, boxed, and handed directly to the person who reserved it.

The event also reinforced how important clear scheduling, realistic production limits, communication, and reliable helpers are when serving that many people from a small operation.

The People Behind the Pizzas

This was never a one-person accomplishment

I may have hosted the event, but it only worked because people stepped forward to help prepare, bake, organize, promote, and support it.

🍕

Matt

Matt jumped into the kitchen and helped make pizzas throughout the event. His experience, willingness to help, and steady presence made it possible to keep pizzas moving during a demanding day.

❤️

Allison

Allison helped support the preparation, organization, and countless behind-the-scenes details required to turn our home into a functioning pickup operation.

🤝

Our Customers and Donors

Every person who reserved a pizza, made a donation, shared the event, or encouraged us helped push the fundraiser beyond what I believed was possible.

Ingredient Sponsors

Quality ingredients donated by generous partners

The event was supported by brands that generously supplied the ingredients used to make the pizzas. Their contributions allowed more of every donation to go directly toward the fundraiser.

Grande Cheese

Rosa Grande Pepperoni

Bianco DiNapoli Tomatoes

Two Rivers Olive Oil

Thank you to every brand that believed in the event and helped make each pizza possible.

What I Learned

Lessons from running a temporary home pizza shop

The fundraiser was both a community event and an opportunity to learn what it takes to serve a large number of people consistently from a very small operation.

⏰

Scheduled pickups matter

Staggering pickups throughout the day made it possible to prepare pizzas individually and give each customer a clear arrival time.

đź“‹

Communication reduces confusion

Confirmation messages, pickup instructions, reminders, and a clear ordering process helped keep the day organized.

🥣

Always have a dough backup plan

Large events create variables that normal pizza nights do not. Extra dough, ingredients, tools, and contingency plans are essential.

đź‘Ą

Ask for help

A successful pizza event needs people who can step into clearly defined roles and keep the operation moving when the kitchen gets busy.

Watch The Best Pizza Shop Slice Out Hunger fundraiser recap

Pizza With a Purpose

The fundraiser ended, but the mission did not

The Summer Slice-a-Thon demonstrated what can happen when pizza, community, generosity, and a clear mission come together.

I plan to keep using The Best Pizza Shop to give pizzas to people who could use a meal or a little encouragement, support organizations like Slice Out Hunger, teach others to make better pizza at home, and create experiences that bring people together.

Suggest Someone for a Pizza →

Thank You

You helped turn pizza into something bigger

Thank you to Matt, Allison, Slice Out Hunger, every donating brand, every customer, every donor, and every person who shared the event.

Together, we made 59 pizzas, raised $2,032, exceeded the original goal by more than 100%, and showed what a small community can accomplish when people rally around a meaningful cause.

This event will always be an important chapter in the story of The Best Pizza Shop—and it is only the beginning.

Watch the Recap → Give to Slice Out Hunger → Suggest Someone for a Pizza → Take the Pizza Assessment →

Event FAQ

Slice Out Hunger Summer Slice-a-Thon

How much did The Best Pizza Shop raise?

The fundraiser raised $2,032 for Slice Out Hunger, more than double the original goal of $1,000.

How many pizzas were made?

We made 59 pizzas during nearly nine hours of scheduled customer pickups.

Where was the fundraiser held?

The event was hosted from my home kitchen and garage in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

How quickly did the event sell out?

Every online ordering time was reserved in less than 48 hours.

Can I support future pizza events?

Follow The Best Pizza Shop on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, watch and share the videos, or make a financial contribution directly to Slice Out Hunger.

Give Directly to Slice Out Hunger →

Can I suggest someone for a pizza?

Yes. You can suggest someone in the local community who could use a meal, a little encouragement, or simply a reminder that someone cares. When I'm able to help, the pizza is a gift—there is no charge and no donation required.

Suggest Someone →