The four Hunt brothers - Lonnie, Jim, Charlie and Don - grew up running their father's restaurant, Austin's Drive-In in Evansville, Indiana. In 1962, Don Hunt uses his restaurant experience and begins selling pizza crusts and toppings out of his Rambler station wagon.

Hunt Brothers Pizza is an American pizza restaurant chain. It was founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Scott Hunt “The brothers knew where they were going when they passed, and we take comfort in knowing they are reunited again in Heaven,” says Scott Hunt, CEO of Hunt Brothers Pizza and son of Don Hunt.

In the end, they were forced to sell their silver at a huge loss, and they were unable to pay the debts they had incurred as a result of their failed bet. At one point, it was estimated the Hunt Brothers had amassed billions of dollars in positions and approximately one third of the world's supply of silver.

Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba is a pizzeria in Naples, Italy, which is widely believed to be the world's first pizzeria.

Fueled by an enormous amount of capital, the Hunt brothers continued stockpiling Silver and purchasing Silver futures contracts. By early 1979, the price of Silver had risen to about $6 per ounce. The Hunt brothers acquired roughly 195 million ounces of Silver, about a third of the world's total supply.

Don and Charlie Hunt Don and Charlie Hunt founded the company with brothers Lonnie and Jim in 1991. NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The last living co-founders of Hunt Brothers Pizza, brothers Charlie and Don Hunt, passed away in late December, the company announced.

The Hunt family's fortune originates with oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt, who inspired the J.R. Ewing character on the long-running TV series "Dallas." His eldest children, the late Margaret and H.L. Hunt III, sold his Hunt Petroleum to XTO Energy in 2008 for $4.2 billion in cash and stock.

The Hunts are one of America's richest families, worth an estimated $20.5 billion altogether, up from $15.3 billion just three years ago when they last won the Super Bowl.

Despite their best efforts, the Hunt brothers were unable to stop the price of silver from collapsing. In the end, they were forced to sell their silver at a huge loss, and they were unable to pay the debts they had incurred as a result of their failed bet.

Who Named the First Pizza? Though we can never answer that question with certainty, we have proof of when the word pizza was used. Guiseppe Nocca, a food culture historian, discovered the word pizza in an official document in 997 AD. The paper was in Latin from Southern Italy, specifically the city of Gaeta.