After 81 years and three generations, Ricci\u2019s Italian Sausage, a staple in McKees Rocks, has a new owner.<\/p>\n
Ernie Ricci, the third-generation \u201cSausage Prince\u201d of McKees Rocks moved to Florida last week to be closer with his family.<\/p>\n
His one son is an attorney in Naples, Florida and his other son is an orthopedic surgeon in Columbus, Georgia.<\/p>\n
While Ricci says leaving Pittsburgh is hard, he wanted to be closer to his sons and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n
The good news for customers is nothing will change at Ricci\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Ernie tells KDKA Radio the new owner is 30-years-old and that all eight of his employees are staying on \u201cand are very happy>\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe business remains as Ricci\u2019s Italian Sausage with the same recipe and USDA federal inspection. Nothing changes!\u201d Ricci says.<\/p>\n
Ricci says he isn\u2019t fully walking away. He will continue to be a consultant for the new owner, voicing commercials and calling in for the annual Seven Fishes show with Rob Pratte.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Seven Fishes broadcast, Ricci was a big part of the annual Spaghetti Breakfast with John Cinga.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was blessed to work with Cigna, Rob Pratte, Larry Richert, Chris Fennimore and Rick Sebak – now, that is Pittsburgh! Thank you, Pittsburgh, for supporting my business for the past 81 years,\u201d said Ricci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 81 years and three generations, Ricci\u2019s Italian Sausage, a staple in McKees Rocks, has a new owner.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60,3313,73,75,74,107910,107911],"class_list":["post-252973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-business","tag-mckees-rocks","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-riccis-sausage","tag-sausage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252973","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=252973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}