Marzettis Restaurant & Salad Dressing History The person behind the T. Marzetti name was Teresa Marzetti (née Piacentini), who in 1896 at the age of 18 emigrated from Florence, Italy, to the United States, settling in Columbus, Ohio. She and her husband Joseph established a small Italian restaurant that opened in 1904 at 1548 N. High. It catered to the student population. The quality of the meals, drawn from old world recipes, assured the restaurants popularity. After Joseph died in 1911 Teresa ran the business by herself until she was remarried to Carl Schaufele. A second, larger, restaurant was opened in 1919 at 59 E. Gay St. One of its dishes, named Johnny Marzetti after Josephs brother, became famous across the country in the 1920s and standard fare at the family dinner table and school cafeteria. This location became especially known for its salad dressings which many customers began to purchase for takeout in small buckets. A separate business, Marzetti & Co., designed to sell salad dressing was started by 1929. By 1942 the High St. Marzetti restaurant had closed and the Gay St restaurant moved to the first floor of the Hayden Building at 16 E. Broad. The demand for Marzettis dressings grew so strong that the upstairs kitchen turned into a small-scale factory. The first product bottled for sale outside the restaurant was Marzettis Original Slaw Dressing in 1947. The person behind the slaw recipe was a young African American woman named Katherine Hill, whose tenure with the company would last nearly 70 years. As a result of it’s popularity, in 1955 a bottling and distribution operation was established on Indianola Ave. Moreover, the salad dressing business began to overshadow the restaurant. It was purchased by Lancaster Colony Corporation in 1969 following the death of Schaufele. Teresa Marzetti died in 1972, at which point the restaurant was closed. fundinguniverse/company-histories/t-marzetti-company-history/ ohiothoughtsblog.blogspot/2013/03/johnny-marzetti-recipe-and-history.html
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