As Residents Assess Tornado Damage, Pizza Man Brian Brings A Tasty Blessing
By Richard Hunt\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a good way to warm peoples\u2019 hearts, spirits\u2026and bellies. You get all three,\u201d explains Brian Rock. The Army veteran owns the Elevated Pie Company, currently a pop-up pizza kitchen using his red 1983 Chevy pickup with a wood-fire pizza oven mounted in the bed. When a strong tornado damaged homes in suburban Chicago, Brian grabbed ingredients and headed to the scene. There, he baked 75 hand-tossed pizzas and gave them to storm victims free-of-charge. Brian loves does this and has a dream to own a full-size food truck to improve his business and help more people in disaster situations.