Founders
The name, Dic Ann, is an amalgam of the founders' names, Dominic "Dic" Potenza (1918–2009) and wife Ann Collecchia. Dominick Potenza was born in Century, West Virginia and was raised in Utica, New York. During the 1940s, he worked as a head-waiter in the supper-club restaurants in the Rochester, New York and Buffalo, New York areas. It was at one of these clubs that he met his future wife, a jazz accordionist who performed using the stage name of Ann Russell. In 1954, they moved back to Ann's home town of Montreal, and opened a burger shack on the corner of Cremazie and Papineau. Two years later, the success of this operation led them to open a larger restaurant in the suburb of Montreal North. This location had a 15-stool counter (outdoors), and was closed during the winter months. In 1960 they enclosed in the customer area, and became a year-round operation. Ann died on July 7, 1988, and "Mr. Dic", as he was known, died on October 28, 2009. Their two children Donnie and Maria, along with their spouses Brigitte and Alex, and now their grandchildren, Delbina, Anthony, Traci, Jessica, Domenick, Anamaria and Joseph, continue the operation and oversee its expansion.
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