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Pizza shop owner distributes day’s profit among employees
Businesses the world over have had to weather massive disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As they gradually recover from the shock, some of them have decided to show their appreciation to their employees for standing by them during the tough year.
The latest to do so is owner of a pizza shop in Ohio, United States, who gave an entire day’s profits to his employees to express gratitude.
In a Facebook video on “Employee Appreciation Day,” the owner, Josh Elchert, urged people to buy pizzas and assure that “none of the money” was coming back to the pizza shop on that day.
“Every cent, all the tips, all the orders, anything that comes in today, is going directly to our employees that work today,” he posted.
Mr Elchert has been running the shop for 11 years and on a typical Monday, the shop caters for about 100 orders. But on that particular day, the shop had received about 220 orders and had made about $6,300 sales and $1,200 in tips, it said would be “divided among its employees.” – ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
