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Equipment Age at Queen Ann Ravioli
The approximate age of the heritage machines used in the pasta shop.
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Inside Brooklyn's Little Italy pasta shop that uses a machine over 115 ...
You're currently following this topic! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. By Rachel Cohn You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. and Jessica Orwig You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. 2026-05-04T15:19:08.272Z Queen Ann Ravioli & Macaroni, a Brooklyn staple since 1972, offers unique pasta products. Manager George Joseph Switzer III uses early-20th-century machines he fixes himself. Switzer hopes to pass the small business down to his son. Renowned for its silky smooth round raviolis and hand-cut fettuccini, Queen Ann Ravioli & Macaroni is a Brooklyn institution. The small business opened in 1972 and has remained a local favorite ever since. As large pasta brands dominate the market, Queen Ann's manager — George Joseph Switzer III — offers more specialized products that customers might not find in supermarkets, including 25 types of ravioli and 50 different pasta cuts."Businesses like this are disappearing," said Switzer, who took over managing the family business from his father-in-law in the late 80s. His wife and sister now own it. "It's hard to find the labor; it's also hard to find the clientele." George Joseph Switzer III in his pasta shop in Brooklyn. Business Insider About 25% of the company's business is retail, and that number is shrinking, Switzer said. The rest is wholesale.Business Insider recently met with Switzer at his shop in Bensonhurst, often called Brooklyn's "Little Italy," for its "Small Business" video series.Step inside Brooklyn's pasta time capsule The back of Queen Ann Ravioli & Macaroni's shop, where the pasta is made. Business Insider Behind the counter, Queen Ann runs on machines that feel closer to a working museum than a modern factory.Switzer points to one in particular — a pasta press built in 1909 in Manhattan — that still runs daily. He said it may be the only machine of its kind still in regular use in the country. Switzer's pasta press from 1909. Business Insider Other equipment dates back decades: a mixer-and-gromola combination unit that smooths the dough and removes air pockets is at least 50 years old.A ravioli machine used to produce 50-count batches is about 75 years old. Even the crepe machine used to make specialty pasta is roughly 60 years old. Switzer's ravioli machine that's about 75 years old. Business Insider Switzer describes the setup as a "time ...
Fight over 'Italy's #1 brand of pasta' in hot water
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal magistrate judge said Wednesday he was inclined to grant summary judgment in favor of pasta giant Barilla in a class action brought by consumers over the phrase “Italy’s #1 brand of pasta.”Magistrate Judge Ajay S. Krishnan told the plaintiffs it would be “quite impossible” to proceed with their claims that the phrase “Italy’s #1 brand of pasta” is false and deceptive advertising because the statement is ambiguous, and thus cannot continue under the standard set by the Ninth Circuit in McGinity v. Procter & Gamble Co.In McGinity, the Ninth Circuit**found that when “a front label is ambiguous, the ambiguity can be resolved by reference to the back label.”“This may all just come down to the Ninth Circuit’s McGinity case,” Krishnan said. “It strikes me that that case is likely dispositive of plaintiffs’ claims, and I say that with sympathy because this case has been litigated for quite some time.”Plaintiffs Matthew Sinatro and Jessica Prost say they purchased multiple boxes of Barilla spaghetti and angel hair pasta last year because they thought the products were made in Italy from authentic Italian ingredients — a belief reinforced by the replication of the green, red and white colors of the Italian flag on its signature blue box.The company originated in the 19th century as a bread and pasta shop in Parma, Italy, and maintains its corporate headquarters in the Italian town. However, Barilla America’s corporate offices are in Illinois, and its pastas are made in Iowa and New York with durum wheat sourced from countries other than Italy.In their class action filed in 2022, Sinatro and Prost say Barilla took advantage of their readiness to pay more for pasta products that look and sound authentically Italian and falsely tout their products as such while “cutting costs and reaping the financial benefits of manufacturing the products in the United States of America.” Barilla’s ad campaign features a website, Barilla Historical Archive, a Barilla Pasta Museum and Barilla Academy, which Sinatro and Prost contend were “all designed to promote the brand and company’s Italian identity.”At Wednesday’s hearing over Barilla’s motion for summary judgment, Krishnan questioned the plaintiffs on whether the phrase “Italy’s #1 brand of pasta” was ambiguous, harping on an survey conducted by plaintiffs’ expert Dr. J. Michael Dennis, which showed 57% of respondents perceived the phrase “Italy’s #1 brand of pasta” to mean the product’s ingredients ...
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