“I always had grown up in the restaurant business, I thought that everybody’s parents did things like this,” says Carmela Cataldo. “I always remembered wanting to work at the restaurant because my older siblings would go, and I thought this is so lame, finally when I was 10 they let me in.”

Carmela Cataldo won first place in the 2020 Best in the Midwest Pizza Competition. First place in the 2021 International Pizza Competition in the Midwest Category, and for the 2021 International Pizza Competition, she won second overall.