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Everybody’s Business: Trying a new recipe for success

AT YOUR SERVICE: Edy Cruz, third from the right, and his wife, Zuleyka Gardinet, second from right, mingle with customers at Cruz’s restaurant El Anafe on Manton Avenue in Providence. From left are server Eva Baaz, Edgar Schultz, Cruz, Gardinet and Alba Martinez. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
AT YOUR SERVICE: Edy Cruz, third from the right, and his wife, Zuleyka Gardinet, second from right, mingle with customers at Cruz’s restaurant El Anafe on Manton Avenue in Providence. From left are server Eva Baaz, Edgar Schultz, Cruz, Gardinet and Alba Martinez. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

The restaurant industry is known to be an unforgiving place to start a business, but for Edy Cruz, the benefits were worth the risk. Cruz recently opened El Anafe Restaurant on Manton Avenue in Providence, an eatery with a menu full of food from his native Dominican Republic.  “I get to be independent and find

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