Upon entry to the McDonald’s Holiday Lights, every family will also receive bargain coupons good only at Dough Boy’s. In addition to free hot chocolate and free candy canes for Santa’s kids, families can redeem these coupons for Family Meal Deal and Buy-One-Get-One-Free bargains.

There will also be a chance to give back to the community. Just bring along an unused toy or gift for a child, and Dough Boy’s will make sure it gets to a needy child before Christmas.

Kids are advised to be very good between now and then, as there is a coal shortage. To help out, Santa’s elves have been working extra hard in anticipation of more good kids than ever this year. As a result of elves working overtime, Santa’s workshop has a backlog of wonderful gifts. Kids, be very good so Santa can end the coal shortage and give his entire inventory of gifts away!

Stop by Dough Boy’s California Pizza at 33rd Street after you exit the Holiday Lights show. Bring the kids for a load of fun, and help Santa help a needy child’s Christmas wish be granted.

For more information, contact the PR dept at 757-469-0031 or email to info@doughboyspizza.com

Virginia Beach based Dough Boy’s has signed with Hampton Roads Happy Hour and will offer $3 Orange Crushes at their “Get Crushed” party, featuring a Burn the Radio free live concert on September 5th.

On Labor Day, Dough Boy’s will kick off its fall, winter, and spring happy hour with “Get Crushed,” where they will offer $3 Orange Crushes from 11-5 and a free live show, featuring local band “Burn the Radio.” The free show starts at 3PM at Dough Boy’s on 33rd and Atlantic Avenue.

The show kicks off Dough Boy’s happy hour from 5-7 Monday through Friday and 12-7 Sundays all fall, winter, and spring, when half-off Orange Orushes will be served. Orange Crushes are a refreshing, local favorite adult beverage concoction that has taken Virginia Beach by storm. Dough Boy’s half-off deal will be the best price in town for the refreshing drink. Go to www.doughboyspizza.com for details and more menu specials. Also, go to http://www.hamptonroadshappyhour.com/restaurants/dough-boys-california-pizza-33rd-st for more happy hour specials. Check out Dough Boy’s, Hampton Roads Happy Hour, and Burn the Radio on Facebook.

Owner George Kotarides said the new store, located at the corner of 32nd Street and Atlantic Avenue, tossed its first crust in early June.

Dough Boy’s is noted for traditional and California-style pies, as well as pasta specialties, sandwiches and salads.

Two other shops are located farther south on Atlantic Avenue at 24th Street and 17th Street. For more information, visit www.doughboyspizza.com.

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Feed the homeless meter

In August, Virginia Beach installed eight meters at the Oceanfront which collect money that goes towards programs to benefit the homeless in the city.

To date, the effort has collected about $800. Five of the meters are sponsored, at a rate of $1,000 per meter, raising an additional $5,000.

“I think you can be confident that when it goes in a meter, it’s going to the right place,” offers George Kotarides, owner of Dough Boy’s Pizza Restaurants, one of the meter sponsors.

“It’s not just giving them a meal. It’s getting them an identification card. It’s getting them transportation. It’s helping them learn how to find a job,” says Kotarides. “You want it to go somewhere where there may be sort of a template in place to kind of give them a road map to becoming, you know, productive citizens and recovering from whatever they are dealing with.”

“I love the idea,” Anna Johnson tells 13News.

Johnson unloaded some change into the meter at 17th Street and the Boardwalk late Monday. She and her family are visiting her son who lives here.

“We always have loose change. We take it out, put it on the counter, don’t know what to do with it. Great idea,” Johnson says.

“We’ve been here in the summer numerous times. I mean, you guys could make a killing on this. You really would, especially with kids that want to go there and turn the knob and see how far it goes like I just did,” she states. “It’s great. You know, they’ll go in and grab a soda or something, it’s like $1.26, and they’ll come and just put the rest of it in there.”

The city is supposed to evaluate the program at the 1-year mark, determining whether it should continue, be expanded, or end.