Married in 1929, John and Angela Viviano’s wedding photo rests regally above the register of the shop they opened on The Hill. “My grandfather came over from Sicily, the town of Terrasini, and opened here in 1950,” said third-generation store owner John Viviano. Seventy-five years later, his grandson and store owner John Viviano says family, food and fun always fueled the business’s success.

“We were doing wholesale business with every Italian restaurant and grocery store. Anything within a couple hundred miles,” Viviano said. He says rising costs and competition in the last several years hit the business hard.