Pita Pit in the Florida Times-Union

Pita Pit recently featured in the Florida Times-Union, titled “Pita Pit: Donate $1, save $1 and help hungry kids across the country." The article details how Pita Pit is bringing the community together to get involved and give back through their involvement in the Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.  Click here for the entire article or begin below.

Pita Pit: Donate $1, save $1 and help hungry kids across the country

By: Beth Cravey

A fundraiser is under way at Jacksonville area Pita Pit restaurants to support a national campaign to end child hunger in America.

Through Sunday, Sept. 22, customers at the Jacksonville Beach, downtown Jacksonville and Fleming Island locations who donate $1 to will receive a coupon for $1 off their next order.

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Pita Pit kicks off No Kid Hungry with Pita Discount

Today marks the first day of participating Pita Pit's partnership with Dine Out: No Kid Hungry.  By donating just one dollar, we'll give you a dollar of your next pita. It's as easy as that. 

Pita Pit Begins 3rd Annual No Kid Hungry Campaign

2013 marks the Third Annual partnership with Dine Out: No Kid Hungry, the campaign to end childhood hunger in America.  Beginning September 9th at participating Pita Pit locations, customers can donate one dollar and receive a dollar off of their next pita.

Pita Pit featured on KFYR-TV NBC Bismarck

Pita Pit was recently featured on KFYR - TV NBC in Bismarck, ND which aired on December 5th, 2012.  The segment focused on Chris Volk’s Pita Pit in Bismarck, ND being visited by Pita Pit’s founder, Nelson Lang. Lang visited Volk’s location due to the large amount of money raised for Dine Out For No Kid Hungry. Lang worked with employees throughout the lunch hour.  Click here for the segment or see below.

Pita Pit Dine Out, Not Kid Hungry Participation Recap

First, we would like to thank all of our fans for making our first year a part ofShare Our Strength's, Dine Out for No Kid Hungry campaign so successful!

We want to highlight some of our great moments from this year.

We had 62 Pita Pit locations participate. They each donated $0.50 for every fork style sold to Dine Out for No Kid Hungry, while also taking customer donations. To make this fun for everyone, we had a company-wide competition to see who could raise the most money for Dine Out for No Kid Hungry!

Our winner was Kristi Grob, owner of the Billings, MT Pita Pit! Kristi, her staff, and her amazing customers raised an impressive $1,505 in customer donation and $99 in salad sales, making her grand total $1,604 in donation to Share Our Strength!

The race between our stores was tight though! Second place went to Tom & Annette Cruse who raised a total of $1,473 from their Sioux Falls, SD store and third place went to Jim Talley who raised $1,088 from his Great Falls, MT store!

The amazing efforts between our participating stores and fantastic customers was recognized by Share Our Strength, who nominated Pita Pit for the prestigious "Rookie Of the Year" Award. The award is given out with many others at the Share Our Strength Conference of Leaders every year.

We had the fantastic opportunity to attend the Conference of Leaders held October 15-17th.

Though we unfortunately did not win the "Rookie of the Year" award, we are very proud of our company as we share the nomination with some very large brands including Chicago Metallic, Jimmy Dean and Williams-Sonoma.

Please enjoy these photos that were taken at the Conference of Leaders.

Conference of Leaders Award Dinner

Conference of Leaders Flash Mob

Chairman and CEO Billy Shore with Pita Pit employee Lisa Aitken & Billings store owner Kristi Grob

We had such a great time participating in Share Our Strength's Dine Outfor No Kid Hungry and can hardly wait to start again next year!

Help us end Childhood Hunger in America by 2015 and take the pledge: http://nokidhungry.org/

Pita Pit featured on Tri-City Herald

Pita Pit was featured in an online article on Tri-City Herald on two separate days. The article is entitled , "Pita Pit in Pasco helping to battle child hunger." Pita Pit owner John Clapper discusses his locations participation's involvement with the Dine Out No Kid Hungry Campaign throughout the month of September. Throughout the entire month, the Pita Pit will donate $.50 of every fork style salad sold and for everyone who donates $1 to dine out, Pita Pit will match with another $1 off coupon for the next visit. Click here & here to view both articles.

Pita Pit in Pasco Helping to battle child hunger

By: Kristi Pihl

The Pasco Pita Pit is participating this month in a campaign to end child hunger in the U.S. by 2015.

Owner John Clapper decided to have his business help with the Dine Out No Kid Hungry campaign in September.

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twEAT OUT with Dine Out & Pita Pit!

Monday, September 19th is going to be a BIG day for Share Our Strength, Dine Out No Kid Hungry! The day is not only the second day of the Dine Out Week, it is also the day where Dine Out has their largest Tweet-A-Thon! According to blog "Be The Change", at last years twEAT OUT (as it is so creatively named), "over 1,000 people helped spread the word by posting 10,000 tweets about the campaign in just one week!" The efforts of these 1,000 individuals helped the "restaurant industry increase funds raised over prior year by 108%, raising $1.5 million dollars to help end childhood hunger in the United States."

This year, we want to have over 2,000 Bloggers, Tweeters and Facebookers to help promote Dine Out For No Kid Hungry! @PitaPitUSA will be tweeting all day Monday in hopes to get our fans involved in the twEAT OUT!

Here is how our followers can help:

To ensure that Dine Out For No Kid Hungry starts the week with a bang, Dine Out is holding a twEAT OUT all day on Monday, September 19. Join in the fun and help spread the word about Dine Out For No Kid Hungry on Twitter and Facebook!

When: Monday, September 19, 2011 | 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST

How to Participate:

On Twitter:

Follow @Dine_Out and @ShareStrength.
Retweet messages about the Dine Out For No Kid Hungry from these two accounts.
Use the hashtag #NoKidHungry in all your tweets
Share this tweet:
I’m dining out for #NoKidHungry this week. Join me by finding a participating restaurant in your area: http://ow.ly/2fhoI

On Facebook:
“Like” Share Our Strength

RSVP “YES!” to Dine Out For No Kid Hungry event on Facebook

Share news about Dine Out For No Kid Hungry with your Facebook friends:
I’m dining out this week for Share Our Strength’s Dine Out For No Kid Hungry. Join me by finding a participating restaurant near you! http://ow.ly/2fhoI

Other Sample Messages:

Feel free to share more messages on Facebook and Twitter. Use these verbatim or customize them yourself:

• @Dine_Out TODAY and help make #NoKidHungry in America! Here’s how: http://j.mp/aXxpIk
• There are over 5,000 restaurants participating in @Dine_Out for #NoKidHungry! Find one close 2 U! http://j.mp/aXxpIk
• Where will you be dining this week for @Dine_Out for #NoKidHungry? Pick a restaurant near you and let us know! http://j.mp/aXxpIk
• Now’s the time! @Dine_Out to ensure there is #NoKidHungry in America! Make your plans here: http://j.mp/aXxpIk

We are very excited to participate in this creative event and hope that all of our fans on Twitter will follow us and participate in the twEAT OUT!

Pita Pit Dine Out, Not Kid Hungry YouTube Video

As we have stated before, we are extremely excited to be participating in Share Our Strength's, Dine Out for No Kid Hungry!

We are so excited in fact, that we have created a YouTube video discussing our participation!

Reminder, we are donating $0.50 for every Fork Style pita sold at participating stores. Also, for every dollar a customer donates, we will give them a dollar back!

Check it out here to watch our video or watch below!

Pita Pit Participates in Dine Out, No Kid Hungry

We are excited to share the news that we are participating in Share Our Strength's Dine Out for No Kid Hungry!

Share Our Strength is a national organization working to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. They weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch every at-risk child.

Share Our Strength has many ways to help raise funds and donate, but Pita Pit is participating specifically in Dine Out for No Kid Hungry. Dine Out is a national event that brings together thousands of restaurants and millions of consumers to help make sure no child in America grows up hungry with the hopes of ending childhood hunger by 2015.

Dine Out for No Kid Hungry occurs one week every year. This year it is being held September 18-24, 2011. However, Pita Pit is hosting a month long fundraiser from Sept. 5 - Oct. 2, 2011.

During Sept. 5 - Oct. 2, participating Pita Pit locations will donate .50 cents for every fork-style (salad) sold! All of our pitas can be prepared in this fork-style option for and even healthier eating experience.

We of course will accept additional donations also! Give a buck, we'll give a buck back! Any additional donations $1.00 or more will receive a "Thank You" certificate with a $1.00 OFF your next pita coupon.

We have taken the pledge to end childhood hunger in America by 2015 and ask that all of our fans take it with us! We have made the pledge available on our Facebook fan page here. You can also view all of our 63 participating locations here.

Unwrap your usual and help end childhood hunger in America. The salad bar has been raised!