I grew up third in a family of four kids. My father was a blue-collar construction worker with an exemplary work ethic, my mother stayed at home with my siblings and myself. In 1990 Knowing he didn’t always want to do construction they opened a small pizza restaurant out in Camarillo, CA . Being only 6 years old, there are plenty of home videos of me trying to make pizza at that age. I’m grateful YouTube wasn’t around back then.

Starting small as part of a franchise chain, my father honed the craft and quickly become friends with the surrounding local businesses. Sometime later my parents rebranded the businesses as independent stores, leaving the franchise system. A opportunity to obtain another location in in Meiners Oaks, CA came up and they took it. So for five years they ran 2 separate locations on opposite sides of the county.

My siblings and myself grew up going our own ways while our parents grew apart, eventually splitting up. But not before they decided liquidate the Camarillo location and move the Meiners Oaks location to the address in Ojai,CA where the business is today. My father ran the business for as long as he could before he concluded it was too much work on his own and closed up shop in 2009. At the time I was working construction but couldn’t let the story end there.