{"id":154182,"date":"2026-04-01T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:23:07","slug":"old-forge-pizza-hotspot-bracing-for-over-300-trays-to-be-sold-on-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154182\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Forge pizza hotspot bracing for over 300 trays to be sold on Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Forge, known as the pizza capital of the world, pizza places prepare for a bustling Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p>OLD FORGE, Pa. \u2014 Many people do not eat meat on Fridays during Lent, pizza places are especially busy. \u00a0In the pizza capital of the world, aka Old Forge, people line up around the block to get a tray of their favorite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We stopped by Arcaro &amp; Genell this morning to talk about the busy week ahead and how employees prepare. \u00a0Manager Amanda Krappa says it\u2019s usually busy on a Friday night with around 200 pizzas going out the door. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Good Friday, she expects more than 300 trays to sell. That means all hands on deck making extra dough. \u00a0Krappa says they also see plenty of customers who don\u2019t practice Lent come for pizza on Good Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old Forge, known as the pizza capital of the world, pizza places prepare for a bustling Good Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-154182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}