300+ Minsky’s Pizzas to KC Schools for Red Friday!
Friday, January 28th, 2022 marked a big day for Minsky’s and Patrick Mahomes’ 15 and the Mahomies Foundation! In collaboration for the first time with Mahomes’ foundation, Minsky’s delivered over 300 pizzas to Kansas City area schools to recognize the kids who completed the Read for 15 program and also to celebrate Red Friday!
15 and the Mahomies Foundation launched the reading initiative, Read for 15, in 50 elementary schools in the Greater Kansas City Area and the South Plains of Texas in 2020. The program encourages elementary school students to read for at least 15 minutes a day for 15 weeks.
Mahomes founded his 15 and the Mahomies Foundation in 2019. His foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of children by supporting initiatives that focus on health and wellness in communities in need of resources and other charitable causes.
Founder and CEO of Minsky’s Pizza, Gregg Johnson, had this to say about working with Mahomes and the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation:
“We’ve had a great relationship with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and his Eighty-Seven and Running Foundation over the past three seasons and we’ve been fortunate enough to raise over $135,000 to date through sales of Travis’ “Kelceroni” pizza to benefit Kansas City’s Operation Breakthrough. So, without a doubt, we couldn’t have been more excited to work with Patrick Mahomes’ foundation, 15 and the Mahomies, to make this one of the biggest and best Red Friday celebrations ever!
This is big time. Restaurant crews at four of our 18 area stores are getting up earlier than usual this Friday morning to make over 300 large Minsky’s pizzas and then deliver them to school kids throughout the Kansas City area. This is a great Chiefs football team – and the guys that lead this team are not only talented athletes, but they’re also pretty amazing people! After all of the challenges of the pandemic, we’re thankful for the business and we’re thankful to be a part of this special Red Friday celebration!”
Managers and other staff members from four Minsky’s restaurants prepared and delivered the pizzas to the different area schools involved. Minsky’s could not be more thrilled to work with the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation to support the local youth communities of Kansas City!
