The Food Chain
Photo courtesy of South Bay Magazine
When Vince Giuliano thinks back on the childhood memories of his parents’ restaurant, he remembers an incident that involved a server who didn’t clock out during a break. Instead of telling his mother, Vince approached the server about the discrepancy himself. He was 13 years old at the time.
“He was angry,” Vince recalls. “He said, ‘You don’t have the right—you’re a little kid.’ And I said, ‘No, you don’t have the right. This is my business.’”
Gaetano’s, a traditional Italian eatery in Torrance, opened several months before this confrontation and as the owners’ son, Vince learned to be responsible for a number of tasks. Along with his sister Andreanna Giuliano-Liguore, Vince jokes that he had jobs most kids couldn’t do today. He washed dishes, bussed tables and served meals. That’s why, when the server dismissed him, Vince remained confident.
“We never looked at it like we were the owners’ kids. We looked at it like we were the business owners,” he says.
