Grandfather Josep Perich, a charcoal burner by trade, was forced to change jobs when butane gas appeared. "They offered him the position of butane gas representative for the region, but he turned it down; he was that visionary," explains his grandson, Jordi Perich, the cook at Cal Carter, with a touch of irony. Having lost his job, he and his wife, Margarita Singla, opened a restaurant in Mura on Puig-Geli Street. Initially, the establishment was called Cal Batista, after the house it was located in, but it soon became known as Cal Carter because, in addition to the restaurant, Grandfather also found work as a mail carrier. He had to pull every string to bring home a paycheck. The restaurant took off, and his two sons, Martí and Jordi, "who were mischievous," would spend their days there after school. When the eldest son was 18, his mother, Margarita, died, and he had to take over the kitchen. The youngest son started in the dining room. And so they continued with a job that led them to serve up to two hundred meals in a single service. "Dad and uncle cooked a lot," explains Jordi.