A VERY THANKFUL LOCAL RESTAURATEUR

Gianni Piccolino (foreground) and his business partner Tommy Calandrucci prepare food for health care workers and first responders early in the pandemic. Photo courtesy Gianni Piccolino.

Local restaurateur Gianni Piccolino, who generously fed first-responders at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, was admitted to Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco days before Thanksgiving 2020, with a life-threatening case of Covid-19. He spent two months in an induced coma. On Christmas Eve Piccolino underwent emergency surgery because of sepsis and just one day before his birthday, on Feb. 12, 2021, he was able to return home.  

Exactly one year after his discharge, Feb. 12, 2022,  he returned to the hospital with a portable wood-burning pizza-oven truck to host a thank you party for the hospital staff that brought him back to health.  Piccolino, his staff, business partner Tommy Calandrucci and family parked in front of Northern Westchester Hospital and prepared individual salads and pizzas.