It all happened in 1975 when my dad, a construction worker, decided to move to Florida from the Bronx, New York. My father and mother, Nunzio and Sara Amante saw an opportunity for our family. What is now Bob's Pizza was a breakfast/lunchette with two tables that sat four people. My parents didn't speak English and had a very hard time communicating with anyone. So it was up to my three sisters and I Bob Amante to help with the communication! All four of us would go to school and then come home to work; my sisters were servers and I would help my mom and dad with the cooking.

As we started to grow, we gradually started to add pasta and pizza. As the business began to take off, my father and I would go get jobs at other restaurants to learn about the business since at the time we didn't have any previous knowledge of what we were doing!

Days, weeks and years went by and we were amazed by our success.

In the early 1980's we decided to expand and build a dining room adjacent to the pizzeria. Adding chicken, veal and seafood to our menu was the best thing that could have happened. It transformed our small two table pizzeria into a white table cloth restaurant, offering Southern Italian style fine dining.