When Argento’s Pizza Palace opened in May, Richland residents may have mistook it for “just another pizza place” going in at 21 E. Main St. The property previously housed Adrian’s, and Mancino’s before that. Except Argento’s is anything but just another pizza place. Though the name might be new in town, it’s a brand that’s been in the pizza and Italian restaurant business for 30 to 40 years.

“My family has been in the pizza business since they came to this country from Italy in the '70s,” said Joseph Argento, who owns the Pizza Palace with his wife, Katherine. “I was born and raised in the pizza business.”