{"id":262820,"date":"2026-08-10T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262820\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:18:27","slug":"how-pages-serves-up-100-gallons-of-ice-cream-a-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262820\/","title":{"rendered":"How Page&#8217;s serves up 100 gallons of ice cream a night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location:\u00a0Page\u2019s on East Carson Street<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featured guests:\u00a0Margie Page Prusia, owner of Page\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 things that surprised me:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. The Page family has owned the property at the corner of Becks Run and East Carson Street for more than a century. The business we now know as Page\u2019s opened as Page Dairy Mart in 1951 and was the brainchild of Charles Alexander Page. He had encountered soft serve ice cream on a trip to Florida. He brought the idea back home to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Margie is the fourth generation of her family to own the iconic ice cream spot. She\u2019d initially thought she\u2019d go into nursing but then decided to buy the business from her parents with her husband. Margie\u2019s dad, Chuck, stops by often to keep tabs on the shop. He\u2019s been delighted by her success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Page\u2019s regularly goes through 100 gallons of ice cream in a day. With only 700 square feet and little storage space, they have to get their soft serve mix delivered about every other day. Last year, though, they built two additional chilled storage units behind the shop so that they can stockpile ingredients and product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing that didn\u2019t make the final cut:\u00a0Margie is one of five children. She said the timing was just right for her, rather than one of her siblings, to take over the business. She does give all her siblings free ice cream, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional info:\u00a0You can learn more about Page\u2019s history on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagesdairymart.com\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/category\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yinzer Backstage Pass<\/a>?\u00a0Check out our visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/the-secret-staircase-in-the-pittsburgh-mayors-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the secret staircase<\/a> in the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/the-secret-staircase-in-the-pittsburgh-mayors-office\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"The secret staircase in the Pittsburgh mayor\u2019s office\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mayor-Oconnor-A-scaled.jpg\"  data-\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJuly 23, 2026July 23, 2026\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/arts-entertainment\/ghosts-and-secret-passages-at-the-carnegie-carnegie\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"Ghosts and secret passages at the Carnegie Carnegie\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/carnegie-A-scaled.jpg\"  data-\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJuly 13, 2026July 21, 2026\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/whats-in-the-secret-room-under-pittsburghs-tenth-street-bridge\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"What\u2019s in the secret room under Pittsburgh\u2019s Tenth Street Bridge?\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10th-bridge-a-scaled.jpg\"  data-\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tJune 24, 2026June 24, 2026\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/author\/bfrankel\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boaz holds an angora rabbit at Humane Animal Rescue's east side campus.\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo perfmatters-lazy\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cropped-IMG_3878-scaled-1-120x120.jpeg\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boaz is the host of NEXTpittsburgh&#8217;s Yinzer Backstage Pass video series. He is also an author, filmmaker, advertising copywriter, teacher, experiential storyteller, talk show host, gardener, kazoo museum curator and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/author\/bfrankel\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Boaz Frankel\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location:\u00a0Page\u2019s on East Carson Street Featured guests:\u00a0Margie Page Prusia, owner of Page\u2019s 3 things that surprised me: 1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111096,73,75,74,45956],"class_list":["post-262820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-page-dairy-mart","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-yinzer-backstage-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262820","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=262820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}