How Toni Calderone Is Building a Pasta Empire with Heart and Grit

🎙️ On this episode of The Franchise Woman Podcast, we welcome Toni Calderone, Founder and CEO of PastaNito, a fast-casual concept redefining the pasta experience.

Toni’s journey is packed with resilience, reinvention, and a whole lot of heart.

Raised in a multi-generational Sicilian-American family steeped in hospitality, Toni was born into the restaurant business. But her path was anything but conventional. After launching over a dozen restaurant concepts, navigating a public divorce, and mentoring other food entrepreneurs through her own incubator, she’s now building PastaNito into a scalable franchise that brings fresh pasta to the fast lane.

You’ll hear:

• How a failed high school business plan became fuel for future success
• Why “disruption” is her mission
• What her grandmother told her that changed everything
• How she built PastaNito for simplicity, efficiency, and community connection
• The importance of women owning their success and getting their “flowers”

Toni is bold, brilliant, and brutally honest. This episode is for anyone who’s ever questioned if they could pull off the impossible.

🔗 Learn more about PastaNito: https://www.ownapastanito.com 📩 Reach Toni: [email protected] 🔔 Like, comment & subscribe for more inspiring interviews!

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