This project began with Antonelli family’s first business, Woody’s Catering and Restaurant, in McKeesport.
Woody’s Restaurant had been existence for many years. Their website was broken, and the owner was at one of his favorite restaurants, Out of the Fire Café, and looked to see who the developer was on their website. He called me and hired me over the phone, no questions asked, just come see me and start working with us immediately on our website.
That turned into two separate websites, Woody’s Catering and Woody’s Italian Restaurant. This was due to the fact that the catering part of the business offered a huge variety of types of food, not just Italian. There was a need to create two types of environments, so two websites it was. I maintained them both for years, and also did a lot of the graphics for other things. We set up an email service and grew their email list. I created email blast templates so one of the owners could create weekly specials on his own. He also was inclined to post his own specials weekly on the website home page, so we made that easy for him to do also.
Several years later the owner called me straight out of the lawyer’s office, they had just gotten a new building in Irwin, and were going to operate yet ANOTHER business there. They opened up Woody’s Italian Restaurant there, as well as Emidio’s for lunch and an event center. They were originally going to call it AEC (for Antonelli Event Center) but I lost sleep over it, and at the last minute convinced the owners to use their own name. That became Antonelli Event Center. The decision was a good one, AEC sounded like a bank to me, or an investment firm.
I did a lot of photography for the websites, first at Woody’s, and then later at Antonelli Event Center. All of it in fact, for the websites. There were several events that I attended, just hung out and ate, photographed everything in site; several food photoshoots, and one family photoshoot in the kitchen, with all of the Antonelli children, and the owner of the building, the Albensi’s. (they would later turn the business into Core Event Center)
A lot of work over many years was done here. Adding more to this, come back soon…
