{"id":3303,"date":"2021-11-06T23:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T23:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:22:37","slug":"local-pizza-manager-wants-to-give-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/local-pizza-manager-wants-to-give-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Local pizza manager wants to give back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since he came to Madera about a month ago to manage the two Mountain Mike\u2019s locations (2180 W. Cleveland Ave. and 1460 E. Yosemite Ave.), Alex Chouhan is trying to find ways to give back to the community.<\/p>

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He started on Oct. 12 by hosting the Central California Blood Center at the Office Depot parking lot behind one of his restaurants.<\/p>

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He is working with the Central California Blood Bank for another blood drive.<\/p>

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\u201cI was reading a story about a kid at children\u2019s hospital and he needs a blood transfusion almost every day,\u201d Chouhan said. \u201cIt said the blood bank supplies were so low that he wasn\u2019t going to make it long. I started to think and got with my sister and wife about how to help. We put our heads together and came up with the idea to give a personal size pizza for everyone to give blood. Everyone loves pizza and Mountain Mike\u2019s is the best pizza so maybe that will help people to come out.\u201d<\/p>

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He turned to his Mountain Mike\u2019s franchise to see what he could do. In turn, Chouhan has personal pizza vouchers to give to blood donors.<\/p>

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\u201cI just got these vouchers and want to do something with them,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to hand out these vouchers at the blood bank.\u201d<\/p>

He plans on having the vouchers available at the Central California Blood Bank location on Herndon and at other blood drives in Madera.<\/p>

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\u201cThe blood center said I can have blood drives at the store,\u201d he said. \u201cI might do it once every other month. I just want to do something. I just want to do what I can.\u201d<\/p>

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Chouhan is also giving those that have given blood the opportunity to receive the vouchers.<\/p>

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\u201cIf people have given blood recently and can prove it, they can come in and get their free personal-size pizza,\u201d he said. \u201cThat will go on until the end of December. When I give blood,, they usually give you a sticker so that can be proof.\u201d<\/p>

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Chouhan came from India to the United States in 1991 and made his way to Madera to manage the two Mountain Mike\u2019s Pizza restaurants in Madera.<\/p>

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\u201cWe came from India in 1991 to Santa Rosa,\u201d he said. \u201cWe stayed there until 2001 and moved to Iowa until about a year ago to Madera. We bought these Mountain Mike\u2019s. I am the General Manager in Madera. My sister has two, as well. We will have a third location in Chowchilla and just broke ground.\u201d<\/p>

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He wants to help out as much as he can and figures giving blood is a good way to do that.<\/p>

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\u201cI just want to do something,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want to do what I can. God forbid, my kids never need the blood.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since he came to Madera about a month ago to manage the two Mountain Mike\u2019s locations (2180 W. Cleveland Ave. and 1460 E. Yosemite Ave.), Alex Chouhan is trying to find ways to give back to the community. He started on Oct. 12 by hosting the Central California Blood Center at the Office Depot parking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":27407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[26,28,29,40],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-charity","tag-community","tag-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}