Here's how 'the lasagna guys' collected $1.26 million in donations to feed New York City's hospital workers. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Courtesy of Luca Di Pietro
Beyond feeding local hospital workers fighting the pandemic, Feed the Frontlines has helped keep participating restaurants alive and their workers employed. "She said, 'I'm so sorry you have to close your restaurants," he says. To help, she offered to pay for meals prepared by Di Pietro's restaurant to be delivered to aDi Pietro and his wife, Kate, 53, immediately thought of NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital. The hospital treated the Di Pietros' son, Ian Di Pietro, nowThe Di Pietro family: Luca , Ian, Isabella and Kate .
After that first delivery Di Pietro thought, "if there is such a need from the emergency room workers, maybe this could help save my restaurant while we do something good for the emergency room workers," he says.Di Pietro reached out to other hospitals in New York City
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