For Frank Greco, owner of Baci Italian Bistro, running an Italian restaurant has always been a family business. “Right after the construction fall — when the interest rate went up — my dad and I decided to go into the restaurant business,” he said about opening his first eatery in 1986 in Illinois.

“It was my dad and I, my mom and my sisters.” He was involved in the family business for seven years until his sister wanted to move on. The family sold the business and Mr. Greco moved on to work with his cousins in Plainfield, Illinois.