Pat's Steaks owner praises Joey Vento
Pat's Steaks owner Frank Olivieri, Jr. was saddened by Joey Vento's death. Says Pat's and Geno's feud is a media myth.
Pat's Steaks owner praises Joey Vento
Dan Gross
“We were business competitors but we were friends,” Pat’s King of Steaks owner Frank Olivieri, Jr. said of Joey Vento this afternoon.
Vento, the philanthropic Geno’s Steaks owner, died Tuesday at 71.
“He was the hardest working guy in cheesesteaks. He has a fabulous store over there,” Olivieri said, blaming the media for the perception of an intense rivalry between the catty-corner shops. Olivieri acknowledged there was a more fierce competition when his father had owned Pat’s.
Meanwhile, funeral information for Vento has been released. A funeral mass will be held at Noon Saturday at the Cathedral Basilica of SS Peter and Paul (18th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway) with a viewing starting at 9 a.m.
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Mr Vento said...what alot of us think....he was "old school"...and I loved his school....RIP & God Bless— ghostmarine
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- wit germs?— vinniefumo
