As of 2011 there were at least 49 restaurants by some variant of that name in the New York City telephone directory, including one named Not Ray's Pizza. After opening several more "Original Ray's" restaurants, he partnered with Cuomo and Mangano to combine independent "Ray's" restaurants into an official franchise chain. In 1981, Gary Esposito purchased a pizzeria from Mangano. By 1991, dozens of pizzerias in New York City had "Ray's" in their name, as well as those in other American states. Also that year, Joseph Bari purchased a pizzeria from Mangano and renamed it, and several others, as Ray Bari Pizza. In 1973, Mario Di Rienzo named his new pizzeria Ray's Pizza (which is now closed) after, he claimed, the nickname for his family in Italy.
Mangano kept the name and later claimed that his was the first.
In the 1960s he briefly owned a second Ray's Pizza, but sold it to Rosolino Mangano in 1964. Ralph Cuomo opened the first Ray's Pizza, at 27 Prince Street in Little Italy, in 1959, named after his nickname "Raffie". Ray's Pizza, and its many variations such as "Ray's Original Pizza", "Famous Ray's Pizza" and "World-Famous Original Ray's Pizza", are the names of dozens of pizzerias in the New York City area that are generally completely independent (a few have multiple locations) but may have similar menus, signs, and logos. Several independent pizza restaurants in New Yorkįirst Ray's Pizza, at 27 Prince Street on the northern edge of Little Italy, Manhattan Famous Ray's was at Sixth Avenue and 11th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan
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