Nashville Pizza Hut stays open in ice storm to feed neighbors

[Tanuki]

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)

[twodogsbarking]

1. How people are supposed to act. Thanks.

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. This is why I stayed there for over fifteen years.

The people.

Not all of them, but most of them are great folks.

[70sEraVet]

3. If we would just stop electing back-assedwards politicians!

Of course, they gerrymandered Nashville to eliminate a very good Congressman. They would have done the same to Memphis, but it is a majority-black city, and the Voting Rights Act protected it -- so far, anyway.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. The game is rigged there.

I mean, it is everywhere, but there it is really rigged.

Even down to the city government.

I have a friend who used to be a council member. The stories that he could tell.