One thing I learned early on by working for a family business, is that few businesses are successfully passed on to next generation. The founders manage to stay on until they die and their children seldom have the desire, skills, or knowledge of the founder to carry on with the family business. There are exceptions but it easier for the children to take the money and sell the business to new owner(s).
At 61 and with his wealth secured (he probably didn’t need to work), the son should have been thinking about his retirement.
Anyway, down here in Texas we can make a cheap pizza very quickly by scrounging through the fridge for leftovers - toppings, spagetti sauce, cheese, seasoning, and a flour tortilla. Tastes better or worse than Little Caesars depending on what’s available and still edible and how urgently you need a pizza fix.
When I took a break from Active Duty to finish my college degree my wife (still Active Duty) was stationed 185 miles away from where I lived/attended college. She would drive down to see me every Friday and on Sundays (the cafeterias on campus were closed on Sundays) we would host a cheap dinner for my AFROTC students.
Since we didn't have much money ourselves and the others had less my wife and I would make a ton of pizzas using cheap Pillsbury dough, some inexpensive canned pizza sauce, and mozzarella cheese, and then add whatever vegetables we had on hand.
We probably made six or seven pizzas nearly every Sunday and never had any complaints.
“One thing I learned early on by working for a family business, is that few businesses are successfully passed on to next generation. The founders manage to stay on until they die and their children seldom have the desire, skills, or knowledge of the founder to carry on with the family business. There are exceptions but it easier for the children to take the money and sell the business to new owner(s).”
Yea that’s really sad too. This kid could have taken the business to new heights had he tried. Well you know what they say talent skips a generation so maybe his kids will be sharp as tacks.