Operation Pizza Bowl to Ship 7,000 Pizzas to Our Troops Overseas

NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

WHAT:  Pizzas 4 Patriots, a non-profit organization (www.pizzas4patriots.com), is teaming up with DHL (www.dhl-usa.com), the world's leading international logistics company and Uno Chicago Grill® (www.unos.com), the inventor of deep-dish pizza, to dish out 7,000 pizzas to U.S. service men and women on the largest pizza eating day of the year for Americans – Super Bowl Sunday.

OPERATION PIZZA BOWL, an effort conceived by Retired Air Force Master Sergeant Mark Evans and his teenage son Kent (of Elk Grove, IL), will provide enough UNO deep-dish pizza to feed around 28,000 troops at several bases throughout Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea and the Philippines in time for Super Bowl events on Sunday, February 6. 

Following a brief press conference, Master Sergeant Evans will be joined by local military personnel for a ceremonial pizza loading which will take place at the UNO restaurant located at 432 Columbus Avenue.  Aided by local employees and executives of both UNO and DHL, the boxes will be loaded onto a DHL delivery vehicle.  

The pizzas, which initially depart from JFK, will first stop in Bahrain, where they will be disseminated by DHL Express and the U.S. military to a number of forward operating bases.

WHY:  This event, dubbed OPERATION PIZZA BOWL, is expected to be one of the largest pizza deliveries on Super Bowl Sunday, and will give American troops a slice of home.

INTERVIEW/PHOTO OPS:

Mark Evans, Frank Guidara and Mike Taylor will be available for interviews and photos following the press conference. Media will have an opportunity to photograph/shoot the loading of the shipment onto the truck, and B-Roll of the pizzas being loaded onto a DHL cargo jet will be available.   

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Frank Guidara

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SOURCE Uno Chicago Grill