Walk into any pizza place with mob-themed decor and you’ll see the usual suspects: movie posters plastered on every wall, red checkered tablecloths, “fuhgeddaboudit” signs hanging in the bathroom. Most of them are all style, no substance—slapping some Italian stereotypes on mediocre food and hoping nobody notices the difference. The name “Wise Guys” isn’t a […]

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Most family businesses don’t make it to the second generation. The statistics are brutal—only about 30% of family-owned businesses survive the transition from founder to child. The restaurant business? Even tougher. The hours are unforgiving, the margins are thin, and the work never stops. Mike has spent 50 years building Wise Guys, starting from that […]