{"id":5210,"date":"2026-09-19T02:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T07:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/katies-pizza-approved-for-5-million-sba-loan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T07:31:05","slug":"katies-pizza-approved-for-5-million-sba-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/katies-pizza-approved-for-5-million-sba-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie\u2019s Pizza Approved for $5 Million SBA Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 19, 2026 (STL.News) Katie\u2019s Pizza and Pasta LLC has been approved for a $5 million U.S. Small Business Administration-backed loan as the locally grown restaurant company undergoes one of the largest expansion periods in its history, simultaneously growing its restaurant footprint, production capabilities, and national retail distribution. The financing is significant not only because of its size. At $5 million, the loan reaches the maximum amount generally available through the SBA\u2019s flagship 7(a) lending program, according to the Small Business Administration. Public SBA-derived loan records show the financing was approved May 1, 2026, through<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/katies-pizza-approved-for-5-million-sba-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 19, 2026 (STL.News) Katie\u2019s Pizza and Pasta LLC has been approved for a $5 million U.S. Small Business Administration-backed loan as the locally grown restaurant company undergoes one of the largest expansion periods in its&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}