After an eight-year stint in the army, which ultimately landed him in Syracuse working as a recruitment officer, Webb reached a decision point to decide whether he would be a career military man or transition into something else. When Webb had traveled around the country for work he had rarely been able to find his beloved Detroit pizza, so he started making his own, which got him thinking. “I thought I’d be happier working in food. Particularly pizza,” he says. “I was 27, I didn’t have time to go through the industry and spend three to four years coming up through a line and learning that way.” So, he took advantage of the GI Bill to attend the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park.