They’ve been friends for years, and now that they’re also business neighbors, Soung Wiser, who owns The Little Grand, and Robb Duncan, who owns Dolcezza, had been trying to figure out how to team up for a promotion together. After all, it’s hard to argue against pizza and ice cream.

But the world turning upside down in D.C. initially made it hard, and then made it easy.

“Just everything that’s going on right now in this city in particular, and then specifically, with the cutting of SNAP and all that,” Duncan said. “We were like, ‘You know what? Let’s do this, and let’s give all the proceeds to the Capital Area Food Bank.’”

So that’s what they’re doing.

“The deal is $16 for a ticket, you get a slice of square pizza, which is our signature sourdough Sicilian-ish pizza,” Wiser said. “And

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