In 1986, Tom Potter was 23 and without a job. Having left school at the age of 15 to begin his apprenticeship as a baker, he had traveled through different cities in his native Australia – Alice Springs, Melbourne and Adelaide – working in a variety of different food-industry related jobs, but could not seem to get his career as baker off the ground. One day he decided to take a chance and try his hand at opening a pizza restaurant. With very little capital he secured a partner (his mother Barbara) and in 1987 opened the first Eagle Boys Dial-A-Pizza Australia Pty Ltd (Eagle Boys) restaurant in Albury, New South Wales. Using radical, innovative and what some may describe as unusual business and marketing tactics, Mr. Potter took that single store and turned Eagle Boys into one of the largest pizza restaurant chains in Australia and New Zealand.