Drunk Tony’s food truck owners Anthony and Kandess Gaudio were making what turned out to be a 17-hour road trip back from Richmond, Virginia, in their recently purchased food truck just before the onset of the pandemic. 

Anthony, a Pittsburgh native who grew up working on classic cars with his father, spent the next 13 months outfitting the truck in his driveway before hitting the road in March 2021 to feed hordes of hungry Charlestonians looking to get a taste of his real-deal Italian cuisine.