Today's salad lovers enjoy a rich variety of delicious Wish-Bone dressings, marinades and mixes. But the Wish-Bone story started with just a single Italian recipe some 60 years ago. In 1945, returning World War II veteran Phillip Sollomi opened a family-style chicken restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri. "The Wish-Bone" was open for business.
The restaurant was an immediate success, but it was in 1948 that the Wish-Bone found its true calling. That year, Phil debuted his mother's then-little-known salad dressing from a recipe brought from her native Sicily.
Word of Wish-Bone Italian spread throughout the heartland. And in 1957, Phil sold the business to Lipton. But his family's tradition of authentic ingredients and exceptional flavor remains as alive as ever.
