{"id":219234,"date":"2026-05-04T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219234\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:05:07","slug":"the-ravioli-king-of-brooklyn-making-nearly-2-million-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219234\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ravioli King of Brooklyn Making Nearly $2 Million Per Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Joseph Switzer III runs Queen Ann Ravioli, a Brooklyn pasta shop founded in 1972. Inside, vintage machines produce thousands of pounds of pasta each week, including up to 2,000 boxes of ravioli a day. <\/p>\n<p>Switzer generates nearly $2 million in annual revenue even as rising costs, mass production, and a changing neighborhood put pressure on his business. But for him, the challenge is not just making pasta \u2014\u00a0it&#8217;s preserving a disappearing way of doing business one batch at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Joseph Switzer III runs Queen Ann Ravioli, a Brooklyn pasta shop founded in 1972. Inside, vintage machines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[21723,98,100,99,1533,9433,86362,86363,22697,9,24,63,20954,86360,86364,86359,7152,86361,13274,3442],"class_list":["post-219234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-box","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-business-insider","tag-day","tag-george-joseph-switzer-iii","tag-mass-production","tag-neighborhood","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pasta","tag-pound","tag-queen-ann-ravioli","tag-ravioli-king","tag-thousand","tag-vintage-machine","tag-week","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219234","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=219234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}