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I quit tech to make $2.3 million selling Halal BBQ

Thu, 06/25/2026 - 10:46

Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi left a 14-year career in tech to open Kafi BBQ, a halal Texas barbecue restaurant in Irving, Texas. In its first year, Kafi made about $2.3 million in revenue without serving pork, one of the highest-margin items in traditional Texas barbecue.

Small Business, Food, Video, small-business, Food, restaurants, linkedin-small-business

Making 300,000 cannolis a year by hand

Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:23

Tech Insider : Business, Style

Fortunato Brothers Bakery has been hand-making cannolis, cookies, and sfogliatelle in Brooklyn since 1976, using the same recipes the founders brought from Naples, Italy.

Food, Small Business, small-business, linkedin, cannoli, naples, Italy

Inside Brooklyn's Little Italy pasta shop that uses a machine over 115 years old

Mon, 05/04/2026 - 11:19

Tech Insider : Business

Food, brooklyn, Pasta, small-business, Food, restaurants, video-to-text

The ravioli king of Brooklyn making nearly $2 million a year

Mon, 05/04/2026 - 09:42

Tech Insider : Business, Style

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 2,000 boxes of ravioli a day.

Small Business, Video, small-business, Food, Pasta, Machines, Antiques

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