Background
His family moved from Chicago to a farm near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and then to Philadelphia, where his father opened a grocery store.
His family moved from Chicago to a farm near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and then to Philadelphia, where his father opened a grocery store.
University of the Arts.
Piszek bought out his partner in the 1950s. He later earned a degree in business administration by attending the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the evenings. One of his early jobs was as a salesman for Campbell Soup.
He hit upon the idea of selling frozen fish in 1946 when he was on strike from his job at the General Electric plant in Philadelphia.
The company suffered after Piszek bought Arthur Treacher"s Fish and Chips in 1979. He sold the business to the Campbell Soup Company in 1982 for close to $70 million.
He wrote a book, "Some Good in the World: A Life of Purpose". He bought the Philadelphia house where Tadeusz Kościuszko, the Polish statesman who aided the American Revolution, once lived, restored it, and donated it to the National Park Service.
lieutenant is now part of Independence National Historical Park.
His donations to Little League Baseball in Poland made Kutno, Poland, the league"s European training center. He befriended Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow before he became Pope John Paul World War II
He was a member of Gore 2000.