BARONI ALIMENTARI

It all began around 1912-1915 when an old Florentine family, the Arduini, opened a large (indeed, by the standards of the time, a very large) "pizzicheria" inside Florence's Mercato Centrale.In this grocery store, one of Mr Arduini's assistants was Lido Oculisti who, after marrying Anna Borghini, took over the shop in 1945 and ran it very successfully with the help of his family until the 1970s... In these years Mr Gino Baroni developed an interest in this historic shop and its success of over fifty years. Mr Baroni, Alessandro's father, dealt in groceries and was one of the most important suppliers to the Oculisti family, and a great friend of Mr Lido, the mastermind of the shop.Eventually they reached an agreement in 1974: Mr Baroni succeeded in buying the shop, and he had no intention to interfere in such a perfectly functioning mechanism.The staff was kept and the shop did not undergo any dramatic transformations. It simply got better. It was first restored in 1982-1983 and..

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