Above, Lacey Sher was a seasoned restauranteur when she befriended Greg DiGiovine at his Tony Tutto Pizza in Ross.
The late Greg DiGiovine, shown here with wife Lynn, opened Tony Tutto after a career managing such music-industry icons as Carlos Santana and Narada Michael Walden.
She says the community has been very supportive. “The
live in California in general and that can work in a restaurant,” she says. “A lot of restaurants can't sustain the food cost and the labor cost together,” she says. “It's finding ways of doing that well, that keeps people going. It's not a big moneymaking operation, usually, unless you have multiple locations and it's a very dialed-in system. “This is a very personal thing. You take on a lot, and sometimes you have to float things.”
families in [Ross] are very kind,” she says. “They loved Tony and so everyone is really happy that I took over for him and kept it what it was because it was great. And he was great.” Sher says that when people ask if the restaurant will ever start serving meat she fondly remembers Tony Tutto’s tongue-in-cheek rejoinder: “Maybe tomorrow.” g
Tony Tutto Pizza 415-383-8646 16 Ross Common, Ross Tonytuttopizza.com
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October 2024
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