Nashville Pizza Hut stays open in ice storm to feed neighbors

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https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson/2026/01/27/nashville-pizza-hut-downtown-stays-open-winter-storm-ice/88361512007/

"Some staff members of a Nashville Pizza Hut are staying at a nearby hotel to keep slinging pies for those without power and food because of the ongoing winter storm.

People from nearby apartments and hotels without power have walked to the Pizza Hut on West End Avenue in recent days in search of a hot meal and place to warm up and charge their phones, manager Tiffany May said. On Jan. 25, employees were taking walk-in orders until 10 p.m., when they ran out of dough.

Employees have even delivered pizzas on foot to people in the area who are unable to leave their home, May said.
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"I said, ‘Well, this is where the world went wrong a while back,'” she said. “People stopped caring about what’s important, and that’s each other.”... (more)