# @insiderfood on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=3jgZatB_35c
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65104723-insiderfood-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-04T14:30:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Insider Food (@insiderfood) — https://gondola.cc/insiderfood

## Caption

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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
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#ravioli #pastamaker #nycbusiness #smallbusiness 

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The Ravioli King Of Brooklyn Making Nearly $2 Million Per Year | Small Business | Insider Food

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nycbusiness, pastamaker, smallbusiness, ravioli

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