Welcome to The Pizza Factory
Your pizza purchase supports the YouthWorks 30 week after school program, school break camps,
and 10 week summer leadership camp for 200 North Tulsa children.
300+ Pizza Factory Children Stun Health Department by Getting Food Handlers Cards.
How Youths Run a Pizza Business
All YouthWorks Pizza Factory pizzas are made by the supervised help of elementary school children and teenagers who have all earned food handler cards from the Tulsa Health Department.
The YouthWorks Pizza Factory empowers at-risk elementary school children and teenagers of low-income families to learn how to run their own pizza business to earn scholarship funds to go to college or trade school to receive the training they need to live out their life dreams.
The Pizza Factory has two divisions: the E.A.S.T. and the W.E.S.T. All 200 at-risk children we work with each year start out in the E.A.S.T. Division (Early Achiever Servant Teams) and complete a 15-topic business curriculum (how to develop their pizza product, how to work as a team, how to plan, how to market, etc) that also teaches them how to read and how to do math … all while learning how to make top-quality professional pizzas. During this stage, all get their food handlers cards, and all go out to deliver their pizzas for free to homeless men and women under the downtown bridges and bring pizzas home to bless their own families.
Once the children graduate the E.A.S.T. Division, they are selected to proceed to the W.E.S.T. Division (Well Experienced Servant Teams). At this level, they form teams of 4 elementary school children, with one adult matched as their PIzza Coach and one teenager matched as their Assistant Pizza Coach. Each team determines their team name, pizza sales plan, and schedules their pizza presentations at area companies, civic groups and churches.
Each of the children participate in the presentation to learn public speaking skills, and afterwards take pizza orders of all in attendance. The four team children and teen assistant pizza coach deliver their pizzas the following week and earn profits to go to special scholarship accounts that are earmarked for their college/trade school education to prepare them for their chosen profession.
The YouthWorks Pizza Factory empowers at-risk elementary school children and teenagers of low-income families to learn how to run their own pizza business to earn scholarship funds to go to college or trade school to receive the training they need to live out their life dreams.
The Pizza Factory has two divisions: the E.A.S.T. and the W.E.S.T. All 200 at-risk children we work with each year start out in the E.A.S.T. Division (Early Achiever Servant Teams) and complete a 15-topic business curriculum (how to develop their pizza product, how to work as a team, how to plan, how to market, etc) that also teaches them how to read and how to do math … all while learning how to make top-quality professional pizzas. During this stage, all get their food handlers cards, and all go out to deliver their pizzas for free to homeless men and women under the downtown bridges and bring pizzas home to bless their own families.
Once the children graduate the E.A.S.T. Division, they are selected to proceed to the W.E.S.T. Division (Well Experienced Servant Teams). At this level, they form teams of 4 elementary school children, with one adult matched as their PIzza Coach and one teenager matched as their Assistant Pizza Coach. Each team determines their team name, pizza sales plan, and schedules their pizza presentations at area companies, civic groups and churches.
Each of the children participate in the presentation to learn public speaking skills, and afterwards take pizza orders of all in attendance. The four team children and teen assistant pizza coach deliver their pizzas the following week and earn profits to go to special scholarship accounts that are earmarked for their college/trade school education to prepare them for their chosen profession.
We ordered pizzas for a company event from YouthWorks Pizza Factory and it was great! There were many varieties to choose from and they were delivered fresh and hot. The boxes were decorated by the kids themselves which was so awesome! It was one of my favorite parts! It was also really neat to have the opportunity to meet the kids as they helped deliver the pizzas. We will definitely order again and I would recommend to others as well. This is such a great concept that helps teach our youth responsibility and work ethic and it serves as a means to provide for their future education! Thank you YouthWorks Pizza Factory!
Lindsey Callery, Hogan Taylor |