The Pasta Factory Making $2 Million A Year On Century-Old Equipment | Small Business

Sponsored by LinkedIn 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 1 million boxes of ravioli a year.  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, it’s preserving a disappearing way of doing business one batch at a time. Read "Inside Brooklyn's Little Italy pasta shop that uses a machine over 115 years old": https://bit.ly/4was2Mm 00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Pasta Dough Mixer & Gramola 02:09 - Antique Pasta Machine from 1909 03:17 - Mechanics of Antique Pasta Machines 04:03 - 50-Count Square Ravioli Machine from 1950s 04:56 - Cost of Bulk Ingredients 05:32 - Crepe Machine from 1960s and Manicotti Pasta 06:28 - Biggest Challenges and Costs 07:13 - Tortellini Machine 09:31 - Round Ravioli Machine 10:30 - Packaging Pasta 11:31 - Small Businesses Disappearing 13:03 - George’s Son & The Future 14:45 - Credits ------------------------------------------------------ #ravioli #pastamaker #nycbusiness #smallbusiness WATCH MORE INSIDER FOOD VIDEOS: Making $2.7 Million A Year Selling Ice In NYC https://youtu.be/iGejCONYVjA How This Black-Owned Brooklyn Bakery Quadrupled Sales In A Year https://youtu.be/lllY65ha7L0 Why Levain Bakery Is NYC’s Favorite Cookie Shop https://youtu.be/07_oj-QXUl0 Insider's mission is to inform and inspire. Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: https://www.businessinsider.com/food Insider Food on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foodinsider Insider Food on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insiderfood Insider Food on Twitter: https://twitter.com/insiderfood Insider Food on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@foodinsider Food Wars on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Food_Wars/9045577297 The Ravioli King Of Brooklyn Making Nearly $2 Million Per Year | Small Business | Insider Food