{"id":319568,"date":"2026-08-12T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319568\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:56:52","slug":"bruno-difabios-bronx-house-pizza-fundraiser-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319568\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno DiFabio&#8217;s Bronx House Pizza Fundraiser Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjcitizen.com\/rising-bronx-house-pizzas-true-secret-ingredients-workers-charity-and-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bronx House Pizza<\/a> is big on portions \u2014 but when it comes to giving back, a portion simply won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The popular <a href=\"https:\/\/sjcitizen.com\/category\/eats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pizza-and-pasta<\/a> emporium donated 100% of the $8,800 raised during a fundraiser Tuesday night at its bustling Palencia location. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event sold out so quickly that the restaurant had to turn away would-be diners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest installment of the burgeoning restaurant brand\u2019s \u201cSupper Club Series\u201d benefited<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StFrancisPortInTheStorm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> St. Francis House and Port in the Storm<\/a>, two St. Augustine programs serving people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bronx House\u2019s vaunted culinary team pulled out all the stops for the packed house, serving an elaborate six-course tasting menu designed to take diners on a culinary trip around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe sold out like that,\u201d founder Bruno DiFabio said. \u201cEverybody came out and supported, and the people loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DiFabio and several of his partners were exhausted but elated as they celebrated the evening\u2019s success. The event took weeks of planning and close coordination with St. Francis House, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-od-added-loading=\"\" data-od-removed-fetchpriority=\"high\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='elementor elementor-74 elementor-location-single post-22896 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-eats category-entertainment category-news tag-featured-4']\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[10][self::DIV]\/*[8][self::FIGURE]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bruno-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Men at table\" class=\"wp-image-22900\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Organizers celebrated the evening\u2019s success.  (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p><img data-od-added-loading=\"\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='elementor elementor-74 elementor-location-single post-22896 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-eats category-entertainment category-news tag-featured-4']\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[10][self::DIV]\/*[9][self::FIGURE]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bruno-and-Partner-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Bruno DiFabio and Mike Bennici, wearing aprons and holding a pizza pallet.\" class=\"wp-image-21080\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Bronx House Pizza founders Bruno DiFabio and Mike Bennici have grown the brand from its first Ormond Beach location in 2019 to 14 restaurants across Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the giving didn\u2019t stop after the final plates were cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 10 p.m., the Bronx House team packed up the remaining food and delivered it directly to St. Francis House along with the money raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DiFabio said the Supper Club series is intended not only to support local causes but also to challenge other businesses to step up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re really laying down the gauntlet and challenging other people to come out and do this because it\u2019s such a great cause and it\u2019s so worth it,\u201d a staffer said. \u201cFilling somebody else\u2019s cup is why we do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. Francis House and Port in the Storm are operated by the nonprofit St. Augustine Society. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. Francis House provides emergency shelter and services to adults and families experiencing homelessness, while Port in the Storm serves homeless and unaccompanied young adults ages 18 to 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its services include emergency shelter, meals, life-skills and job-readiness training, and help securing permanent housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c$8,800 \u2014 that\u2019s nothing to shake a stick at,\u201d DiFabio said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx House Pizza is big on portions \u2014 but when it comes to giving back, a portion simply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,120495,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-319568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-featured-4","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}