Pennsylvania pizza shop helps teen who lost father get new bike after theft - Fox News

A Pennsylvania pizza shop stepped up to help a teen who lost his father a few months ago after his bike was stolen outside the restaurant earlier this month.

A new bike was gifted to Charly Spor, 17, on Thursday after Brian Himes, the owner of Italian Style Pizza & Pasta in Folcroft, Pa., and members of the community raised more than $200 in five days.

Spor, an aspiring chef, stepped up to become the man of the family for his mom and three siblings after he lost his dad in January, Fox 29 reported.

Himes told Fox News on Thursday that Spor is one of his favorite customers.

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“From time to time after work he would order pizza from me," Himes said. "He would ride his bike down, pick the pizzas up, then duct tape them to his bike and take them home to his family.”

Himes said when Spor came to pick up pizzas on Oct. 14, his bike was stolen from right outside the pizza shop.

“I felt horrible,” said Himes, who asked one of his delivery drivers take Spor around the neighborhood and look for the bike.

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Himes said he posted on Facebook asking anyone who may have seen the stolen bike to call him.

“Two days later I had gotten a call from a customer asking if anybody had any luck finding the bike," he said. "I informed her no one had found it. She suggested that we raise money for a new bike."

The new bike was gifted to Charly Spor, 17, on Thursday after Brian Himes, the owner of Italian Style Pizza & Pasta, in Folcroft, Pa., and members of the community raised more than $200 in five days.  (Fox 29)

Himes took to Facebook once again, this time asking anyone interested in raising money for a new bike to call him or go to the pizza shop.

Within five days, he had collected $140, he said.

Himes pitched in another $60 dollars to cover the cost of the bike, as well as an additional $45 to purchase an extended warranty on it.

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Spor stopped by the pizza shop after school on Thursday and Himes gave him the new mountain bike, which will get him back and forth to school and his part-time job.

“He was very excited. He kind of teared up when he came in,” Himes said. “It was pretty cool.”

“It’s way better than any bike I’ve ever had before," Spor told Fox 29. “I really want to thank them.”

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Domino's has put bubble tea bubbles on a pizza and people don't hate it - CNN

Hong Kong (CNN) — It might be the ultimate meeting of eastern and western cuisine -- Taiwan's famous bubble tea as a topping on a Domino's pizza.

The sugary and chewy beverage has spread rapidly across the world since it was invented by a Taiwan tea house chain in 1988.

Delicious milky tea drinks with sweet tapioca balls, known as boba, can now be found in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as across much of Asia. And now, they can be found on your pizza.

For just one month, Domino's locations across Taiwan are offering a dessert pizza covered in black sugar pearls, honey and cheese, with a soft and chewy texture.

"Don't miss the highlight of Taiwan that is popular around the world: the black sugar pearl explosion," reads a press release from Domino's.

Lev Nachman, a University of California Irvine PhD candidate conducting research in Taiwan, told CNN Travel that his expectations were "as low as they could be" before he tried the bubble tea pizza, but he was pleasantly surprised.

"It was a normal Domino's cheese pizza but with boba, brown sugar and honey on top," he said.

"In Taiwan everyone loves the texture 'Q' which means chewy or bouncy in the way boba is, and this pizza was indeed very Q," he said.

It'll only be served until the end of November, giving bubble tea lovers just a few weeks to grab a slice.

Domino's isn't the first pizza store in Taiwan to serve bubble tea pizza, however. Foodie Star, a restaurant in Chiayi City in southwestern Taiwan, claims it was the first to invent the recipe in April 2015.

"People like bubble tea and people like pizza," Foodie Star owner Chen Yun Yu told CNN, although she admitted that their variation had been controversial.

"We recognize that some people love our bubble tea pizza and some people really don't like it."

But Chen said she thought Foodie Star's pizza was better than the Domino's version, describing their recipe as "special and different."

"We are not scared of Domino's," she said.

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