Shiraz

Mehdi Rashidian was destined to serve pizza. When he and his family moved to Calgary from Iran in 1989, the former pharmaceutical sales and marketing manager’s first job was delivering pizzas. He then tried his hand at everything from auto repair and dishwashing to carpentry and bus driving before he opened his first Domino’s Pizza franchise. Eventually, he owned six, but wanted a place to call his own. In 2010, he and his wife Sarah Javaheri launched Shiraz, one of Calgary’s very few Persian and halal restaurants.