Pietro Fazzi had arrived first from his home in Vinchiana, near Lucca, Province of Tuscany, working first in a ‘friend’s’ fish and chip shop in Windmillhill Street, Motherwell (given later associations, R. Biagioni 69 Windmill Street?).
His brothers, Angelo and Giuseppe, later joined him to open a business on their own account. In the Censimento of 1933 an ‘A. Fazzi’ is listed at 28 Windmillhill Street, Motherwell. In all likelihood this is Angelo Fazzi, Pietro’s brother.
Meanwhile, in 1926 the brothers had decided to diversify by opening premises in Maxwell Street, Glasgow before quickly moving to close-by 230/232 Clyde Street. They decided to experiment in importing Italian food; a successful venture due to the large and growing Italian community throughout the West of Scotland.
Pietro capitalised on his friendship with the Bertolli family back in Tuscany and began bringing in produce such as their famed Bertolli olive oil, along with Mennucci pasta, making the Fazzis the first importers of Italian food into Scotland.
When Italy entered the War in 1940 the three Fazzi brothers were interned. They signed over control of the company to a Glasgow-born employee, Joseph Biagioni. After the war the ownership of the business was restored to the Fazzi brothers and Biagioni was invited to be a co-director/secretary.
Pietro retired in 1958, Guiseppe in 1964 and Angelo in 1973, making way for their sons, Roberto and Carlo and son-in-law, Lucio Sarti.
Lucio was the wife of Luigina Fazzi. Lucio joined his father-in-law, Pietro, in Fazzi’s where he eventually became a director. He and Gina had two sons, Sandro and Piero, and after a spell as a full-time mother Gina returned to work and instigated the opening of the first Fazzi’s Caffe Bar in Cambridge Street, which she also managed.
Lucio and Gina’s two sons, who had worked for Fazzi Brothers for many years, went on to open the first Sarti restaurant in Glasgow’s Wellington Street in 1992. Restaurants in Bath Street and Renfield Street followed. Their granddaughter Daniela – Sandro’s daughter – bought the latter business in 2002 and in 2008 she and a management team bought the other two Sarti eateries.
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