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City hits bumps in plan to implement additional shelter beds [Video]

Six weeks after its launch, the Winter Response Program for Londoners experiencing homelessness has yet to open all of the additional overnight shelter beds. The city is providing $5 million to a group of frontline agencies led by London Cares to offer additional daytime and overnight spaces, but staffing the expanded shelters has slowed the roll out.

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World’s ‘mega pizza’ has 68,000 slices [Video]

STORY: Location: Los Angeles This mega pizza will dish out 68,000 slices once it is completedPizza Hut is hoping it will become the worlds largest pizza ever made[David Graves, President / Pizza Hut]”Yeah. So, it’s a big team, as you can see. Look, I mean, look at the size of it. It’s a giant pizza. It’s about 14,000 square feet. So, if you think about that, it’s going to be like 68,000 slices of pizza when we’re all done. And the great thing is none of it’s going to waste. We can actually donate it to some local food banks here in the Los Angeles community. So, we’re really excited about that.”To make the pizza, rectangular slices of pizza dough are laid along the base Pizza sauce is then painted on to the dough before cheese and pepperoni are addedA cooking device then hovers over the pizza to cook it”You know, Pizza Hut has a history of making firsts, right? We were the first to deliver a pizza. We’re the first to take an order over the Internet. We’ve always done big, exciting things. And so, breaking the world record for the world’s largest pizza just felt like the right thing to do to celebrate bringing back our largest pizza. So, that’s why we did it.”