Frank's Pizza cuts the blue ribbonPosted Sep18, 2008 at 10:59 AM In August, Patricia Giovannini and her husband, Marco, brought a new branch of her family's business to Salem. While going to school in Italy for English, French, and Italian translating, Patricia found herself managing a disco--a place where restaurant, music, and club merged and could bring in close to 16,000 people a night. Marco has been in the restaurant business since age 15, when Italian students choose what they'd like to study, and the two hit a natural progression of owning their own business since moving to the Roanoke Valley two years ago. "At first we were worried about parking," she said, until they spoke to George Barker, owner of Barker Realty across the street. He showed them the free space around downtown Salem, and the building that most recently housed a Surf and Turf grill became the newest Frank's Pizza. They worked for Patricia's father, Frank Corigliano, at the Hunting Hills location until they found the site on West Main for their own venture. Corigliano hails from Rocca Di Neto, Calabria, in Italy --he came to the States at age 19. Now seven parlors with his name grace the Roanoke Valley, and there's even one in North Carolina. -- Miranda Adkins |
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