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ROLLING OUT: Jacky’s Waterplace Sushi Bar robot server “Bella” waits on a table with Ignacio Davila, left, and Galen Tate.
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Robots could help restaurants struggling with labor shortage

Customers at Jacky’s Waterplace & Sushi Bar in Providence may have noticed a certain restaurant employee that stands out from the others. Or rather, rolls...
Bruce Newbury

Dining out: A lesson for Salve students

Like the virus and its far-reaching effects, telling the story of the pandemic has been unprecedented. On social media, we receive and react to...

Study: COVID-19 had $2.2B impact on R.I. hospitality and tourism in...

PROVIDENCE – The COVID-19 pandemic impacted Rhode Island’s hospitality and tourism industry to the tune of $2.2 billion in 2020, marking a 30% decline...

Hospitality Association unveils new job board website

CRANSTON – As lawmakers fast-track changes to state unemployment benefits aimed at getting people back to work, the Rhode Island Hospitality Association is also...
SAFETY FIRST: A waiter serves diners during an “Al Fresco on the Hill” event on Atwells Avenue in Providence. Restaurateurs say stressed staffers are playing the role of enforcers of mask guidelines while keeping an eye out for state inspectors.  / COURTESY FEDERAL HILL COMMERCE ASSOCIATION

R.I. restaurants will no longer operate under curfew, but relaxation doesn’t...

PROVIDENCE – Restaurants that have been required to close early for more than two months because of the ongoing pandemic will be freed of...

‘Herculean effort’ needed for local hospitality industry to recover

PROVIDENCE – Farouk Rajab on Thursday said there is “no clear path forward” for economic recovery of his downtown hotel that has been crippled...
THE RHODE ISLAND Hospitality Association found in a recent survey that 21% of respondents in the Rhode Island hospitality sector experienced more than a 70% decline in revenue in July compared with the same month a year ago.

Survey: Nearly 40% of R.I. hospitality businesses saw revenue decline 50%...

CRANSTON – Nearly 40% of hospitality businesses in Rhode Island experienced a revenue loss of over 50% in July as the COVID-19 pandemic slammed...
Bruce Newbury

State of dining distinction

There are many reasons why Rhode Island is consistently such a popular culinary destination both for those who want to taste and experience, as...

Flanagan joins Rhode Island Hospitality Association board of directors

CRANSTON – In a late December announcement, Tim Flanagan, general manager of the Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln, was named to the Rhode Island...

No longer a spectacle but still beloved by many, Ringling circus...

When Lawrence Records was a child in the 1960s he attended a special Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance at the Providence...
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