Giovanni Rana
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Giovanni Rana Script error: No such module "If empty".[1][2] (born 15 October 1937) is an Italian pasta maker, founder of the Giovanni Rana brand of Italian food products, including refrigerated pasta, sauces, and ready-made dishes. The brand started in 1962 with homemade tortellini and has since expanded, distributing products in 38 countries.[3]
Life and career
Template:Refimprove section Rana was born on 15 October 1937 in Cologna Veneta, Italy. He joined his brothers at the family bakery in San Giovanni Lupatoto, Veneto, in 1950 and began making tortellini, personally preparing the pasta and the filling. He began producing pasta and made the deliveries door-to-door with his motorbike.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 1962 Pastificio Rana officially opened its doors.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". At the beginning the production, the pasta was strictly handmade. Rana himself oversaw its distribution and delivered the tortellini from house to house.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
With the assistance of local engineers and mechanics, Rana designed and developed new machines to meet the increasing demand for pasta. The machines increased production from about Script error: No such module "convert". of tortellini an hour to about Script error: No such module "convert". an hour. In 1971, the factory moved to its current location of San Giovanni Lupatoto. Rana's son Gian Luca (today the CEO of his father's company) joined the company and expanded the brand to other European countries and the US. The first factory in Chicago opened in 2012. In October 2012 the Giovanni Rana pasta company opened its first restaurant in the United States at the Chelsea Market complex in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.[4] The same year the firm opened a restaurant at Regent's Place in London, England, which is its first eatery in the United Kingdom.[5]
References
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External links
- Giovanni Rana's U.S. Web Site
- Giovanni Rana Pastificio & Cucina Restaurant in New York
- Giovanni Rana Web Site (Italy)
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