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R.I. restaurant industry experiencing a plant-based boom

by Elizabeth Graham

APPEALING SPOT: Plant City in Providence has been hailed as the world’s first plant-based food hall. It features two sit-down restaurants, a market, coffee bar and a build-your-own-bowl station. Owner Kimberley Anderson said the food hall served 200,000 people in its first five months of operation. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI
APPEALING SPOT: Plant City in Providence has been hailed as the world’s first plant-based food hall. It features two sit-down restaurants, a market, coffee bar and a build-your-own-bowl station. Owner Kimberley Anderson said the food hall served 200,000 people in its first five months of operation. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

On a busy Saturday morning inside Plant City food hall in Providence, owner Kimberley Anderson found time to strike up conversations with customers who caught her eye. A couple with a tiny baby, an older man with dark sunglasses, another couple she discovered are from Portland, Maine. She asked what brought them and offered suggestions

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