During not quite yet 35 years of serving food, Napoli Italian Restaurant in Collier already has had three generations of contributors to its success. Already staking a claim the fourth is young Carmine McCarty, who started to become eminently familiar with the business with the closing of childcare centers at the start of the covid-19 pandemic.

“We brought him to work with us,” Don McCarty, his father, said, “and he’d come back and make pizzas with us.” Now approaching his eighth birthday, Carmine has developed a knack for preparing pies that impresses his parents. “He has a pretty good technique,” mom Nicole McCarty said.