What to know
- Grandma Loves You is donating $3 from every Pizza Caesar Wrap to Daily Bread Food Bank, aiming to raise $30,000 in 30 days.
- The campaign marks the shop’s 7th anniversary and one year of its Pizza Caesar Wrap—a mashup of pizza and caesar salad inspired by one of the co-owners’ go-to combo.
- Uber Eats is supporting with free delivery and subsidized fees, while the owners say seeing food bank lineups firsthand pushed them to turn their milestone into a city-wide fundraiser.
Doesn’t a ceasar salad feel so refreshing after pizza? Well, what if you could have them at the same time? For every Pizza Caesar Wrap sold, Grandma Loves You is donating $3 to the Daily Bread Food Bank, aiming to raise $30,000.
The gourmet sandwich shop Grandma Loves You celebrated its seventh anniversary in March. But last May, the business released an upgrade of their viral Chicken Ceasar Wrap: the Pizza Ceasar Wrap.
Sarah Davoodi, co-owner of Grandma Loves You, said this new menu item is one of her favourites, too. “My two favourite things. If I eat pizza, I love to have a ceasar salad on the side. We tried it out and it’s like super, super tasty.”
In honour of Grandma Loves You’s seventh anniversary and the first anniversary of the new Pizza Ceasar Wrap, co-owners Sarah and Artin Davoodi decided to launch the 30 days of love campaign, hoping to raise $30,000 in 30 days.
Uber Eats is also participating in this initiative. Every order has free delivery for the month, subsidizing 30 per cent off for Grandma Loves You so they can spend that $3 on the food bank.
“This is the first time that they all agreed to something like this… They’re so excited to do it with us,” Artin Davoodi told Now Toronto.
As a food-centred business, the Davoodi’s decided to celebrate their anniversary through the gift of food, helping those dealing with food insecurity.
Their kids’ school held an event where parents and children could volunteer to support food banks. Through that experience, they were inspired to do the same through Grandma Loves You.
“When we were helping as volunteers for this event at the school… once you really go to the food bank and see the lineups, it’s something else.” Sarah Davoodi said.
Inspired by that experience, Sarah and Artin Davoodi spent one month planning and reaching out to the community to spread the word.
“Our slogan, which we are trying to always say, ‘Everybody spread love, not crumbs.’ And everything fits… it was kind of a perfect circle moment,” Sarah Davoodi said.
She’s hoping to continue this yearly if the campaign is successful.
“I can’t describe what kind of rewards I can give you back without the community, without the support of Toronto… Everyone supported us from the first year… exactly with the first lockdown. So we got so much support to survive… So to give back means everything to me,” Sarah Davoodi said.
