{"id":192491,"date":"2026-04-10T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192491\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:11:08","slug":"how-my-pakistani-chopped-cheese-brings-in-up-to-140k-a-month-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192491\/","title":{"rendered":"How my Pakistani chopped cheese brings in up to $140K a month in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email<\/p>\n<p>Zeeshan Bakhrani, 34, is the owner of Nishaan in New York City\u2019s East Village. He opened the restaurant in August 2025 with $70,000 of his own savings, monthly revenue grew from $57,000 to a peak of $140,000. Nishaan\u2019s signature Pakistani chopped cheese \u2014 a mashup of a New York chopped cheese and Pakistani chapli kebab flavors \u2014 has built a loyal following on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Zeeshan Bakhrani, 34, is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7624,2474,9,24,56,63,65,64,28479,21262],"class_list":{"0":"post-192491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-east-village","9":"tag-food-trends","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-pakistan","17":"tag-positive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}