{"id":50028,"date":"2024-03-08T17:31:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheflive.co.uk\/?p=50028"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:14:18","slug":"independent-sheffield-pitta-company-celebrates-busy-opening-day-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/independent-sheffield-pitta-company-celebrates-busy-opening-day-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Sheffield pitta company celebrates ‘busy’ opening day fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new restaurant has opened its second branch in Sheffield today in a popular student hotspot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Pitta, located at 85 Junction Road, held a fundraiser for The Sheffield Children’s Hospital, in honour of their new location\u2019s launch day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to raise as much money as possible they reduced the price of their pitta from the usual cost of around \u00a36 to just \u00a31.99 between the hours of 12-8 pm, with all proceeds of the day going towards their chosen charity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle, 52, an Urban Pitta employee, said: \u201cIt’s been really really busy, we’ve had some great support. People were queuing for three-quarters of an hour when we first started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They raised a total of \u00a31498.52 throughout the opening day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People keen to try out the new venue queued up outside the new shop to take advantage of the offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liv Tutill,19, A student at The University of Sheffield said: ” I’m glad they chose to support the children’s charity I think it’s a really good cause that everyone wants to support”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The staff guided\u00a0customers through the options on the menu, with a special appearance from Theo the Bear from The Sheffield\u2019s Children’s Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the choice of charity Michelle said: \u201cIt’s a charity that’s close to everybody\u2019s heart. Every single one of our children have been in the hospital at some point or the other, and it’s a fantastic cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Pitta, who have another store on Chesterfield Road in the city, say they pride themselves on their fresh, natural ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s website says their pittas are made fresh in-house every morning to provide customers with the most enjoyable, authentic and tasty eating experience possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noah Hughes,18, said: \u201cThe food here is amazing. I\u2019d rather spend my money here than one of the big chains, you can really taste the quality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The restaurant’s menu includes meat options, with grilled steak and chicken as well as vegan options using the renowned vegan meat brand, ‘Beyond Meat’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max Morris,20, a student at The University of Sheffield, said: “I love Urban Pitta, I will definitely be eating here more, it’s like subway but better”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new restaurant has opened its second branch in Sheffield today in a popular student hotspot.  Urban Pitta, located at 85 Junction Road, held a fundraiser for The Sheffield Children’s Hospital, in honour of their new location\u2019s launch day. In order to raise as much money as possible they reduced the price of their pitta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":50047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,132,156],"tags":[73,202,337,12],"class_list":["post-50028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-stories","category-top-story-3","tag-charity","tag-food","tag-restaurant","tag-sheffield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52478,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50028\/revisions\/52478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}