Jon Peter Patten is one of the founders of Dion’s Pizza. Jon Patten was about 25 years old when he and his partner Bill Scott opened up the Dion’s business. Neither one of them had any sort of business experience. Dion’s is a small dine-in restaurant that started in Albuquerque, NM and is beginning to branch off into other states such as Texas and Colorado. It became very successful over short 35 years of life.
Jon Patten was born on July 10, 1953 in Pontiac, Michigan but Patten grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan instead of his birth town. He attended Alma College in Alma, Michigan and then St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland; there he studied Western civilization and philosophy. Patten studied western civilization and philosophy for about two years but did not get a degree. At the age of 36 years old he and his wife Julia got married and have been married for over 20 years. Jon and Julia have four children together which are all sons and one granddaughter, Isabella who is 7 years old. As of 2009 they have five Australian shepherds named Pasqual, Zella, Charlie, Jack and Kalle, two Havanese dogs named Monte and Raymond, a cocker spaniel named Snicker. The family also has 12 sheep, 12 ducks, two reptiles and a cat named Mario. By learning of all the animals he has, he sounds like a extreme …show more content…
They found a good store for sell that was formally a New York’s Pizza place, with a great location. They were going to name is “Dionysus” after the Greek god of the grape harvest and wine. But when sign maker came by to make the sign, they were super surprised at the price. “Inflation had skyrocketed since ancient Greek times.” They asked the sign maker what they could do to make their sign less expensive and his reply was, “Well, you could knock off a few letters.” Which is exactly what Jon and Bill did. After that their restaurant was now known as