Roccos Pizzeria fundraisers demonstrate the full circle of community support – SteinbachOnline.com [Video]

Think of it like a pizza. A delicious, hand-crafted pizza from Rocco’s Pizzeria in Steinbach.

The popular restaurant relies on customers to buy and enjoy their tasty product. Because those customers keep coming back, the restaurant is able to support them and the broader community through its Take-And-Bake fundraisers. It’s a cyclical kind of support.

“If it wasn’t for our storefront restaurant, we wouldn’t be able to do the fundraisers; and we can’t do the storefront restaurant without the support of the community,” says Damian Penner, who owns and operates Rocco’s Pizzeria with his wife Jodi. “So it’s kind of a full circle of us being able to show our appreciation to the community for supporting us, and then going back out into the community with the fundraisers.”

Since 2020, when it launched the Take-And-Bake initiative, Rocco’s has helped raise more than half a million dollars for local groups, clubs and charitable organizations. The fundraisers …