Restaurant Owner Gave Entire Day’s Sales To Employees To Thank Them For Working Through The Pandemic
On a typical Monday, Heavenly Pizza in Findlay, Ohio, gets about 90 orders out its doors. But earlier this month the shop’s owner, Josh Elchert, ...
Posted — UpdatedTo get the word out leading up to the appreciation day, Elchert posted a couple of videos announcing the pizzeria’s plans for the profit share on Heavenly Pizza’s Facebook page.
When the appreciation day rolled around, orders started pouring into the shop.
Here’s a post the shop shared after the Employee Appreciation Day:
Restaurants nationwide are battling a labor shortage, hanging “help wanted signs” and scaling back on menu items as they struggle to remain open. But at Heavenly Pizza, Elchert says he’s grateful that his employees have stuck with the shop throughout the pandemic.
“We wanted to honor and show value and appreciation to our employees,” says Elchert, who opened the shop 11 years ago.
In all, 22 employees worked on the Employee Appreciation Day.
Many of the employees are high school students and the pizzeria is their first-ever job. Timmy Lemire, a manager at Heavenly Pizza who has worked at the shop for five years, says it’s an overarching goal to make sure the teens have a great “first job experience” and there’s a work environment governed by mutual respect and kindness.
While the shop is a fun place to work year-round, with employees often singing and dancing as they make pizzas, Lemire says spirits were especially high on the Employee Appreciation Day.
“I was blown away by the generosity — not only of Josh, but also the customers who showed their appreciation,” Lemire says.
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