Over 40 years ago, in New York, two cousins learned to make pizza at their family pizzeria.<\/p>\n
Young John Arena<\/strong>, (12) started working for 50 cents an hour. It was fun but difficult. He worked hard but he began to learn the pizza business.<\/p>\n After a short while he asked his younger cousin Sam Facchini<\/strong> (11) to come by to work as well.<\/p>\n This did not sit well with Uncle Rocky<\/strong>, one of the brothers who owned the pizzeria.<\/p>\n He told John<\/strong>, “I didn’t hire him, you did…so you pay him…”<\/p>\n And John did. He split his 50 cent per hour wage in half. Both he and Sam were now making 25 cents an hour.<\/p>\n Here is the story as explained by Sam<\/strong>:<\/p>\n