An Omaha waitress served Warren Buffett for 10 years—here’s what she learned from him
For the 81 years Piccolo Pete’s Italian steakhouse was open in Omaha, Nebraska, it was a neighborhood restaurant where families came to eat heaps of pasta with red sauce and 16-oz. T-bone steaks, served by a staff of locals. Above the tables in the wood-paneled dining room, a sparkly crystal ball hung as a relic from the restaurant’s days of hosting ballroom dancing with dinner.
Then, in 2005, something quite exciting happened at the family-run eatery: A billionaire came to dinner.
Warren Buffett, “the oracle of Omaha,” first started frequenting Piccolo’s in May of 2005, according to the restaurant’s former general manager, Scott Sheehan. That winter, he decided to have his company Christmas luncheon at the restaurant.
