Tag: Hospitality
Hospitality’s headache: How to attract, keep workers
Erin Umbdenstock spent her four-month stint of unemployment trying to keep busy.
She cooked and cleaned her Coventry apartment and took up several new hobbies....
Join the List of Local Companies Taking the Pledge to Meet...
The long-awaited return of business travel is within reach as the Rhode Island Convention Center prepares to welcome its first in-person event in more...
Mattiello’s cooking up ways to overcome adversity
PBN 2021 Business Women Awards
Achievement Honoree: Lisa Mattiello, Pranzi Inc.
LISA MATTIELLO HAS ALWAYS loved food, beverages and occasions for people to gather.
Growing up...
R.I. Commerce seeking tourism marketing leader with local knowledge
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. is seeking candidates for its chief marketing officer position that have a working knowledge of Rhode Island and...
UI changes a Band-Aid for wounded R.I. job market
It’s surreal to think that after a more than yearlong pandemic and 450,000-plus COVID-19 unemployment filings in Rhode Island, that jobs would now be...
Meet in RI To Help Jump-Start the State’s Meetings and Events...
It’s been more than a year since in-person meetings and events were abruptly suspended in Rhode Island, causing a ripple effect of lost business...
Returning to normal
Are you optimistic that some sense of normalcy will return by the end of 2021?
Yes: 90%
Unsure: 10%
No: 0%
When do you feel some sense of...
Marsella Development Corp. to purchase Union Station’s lower floor; build food...
PROVIDENCE – Marsella Development Corp. had a hand in redeveloping Union Station more than three decades ago. Now, the company is working with the...
Restaurant rebound will be ‘joint effort’
Dino Passaretta is CEO of the Downtown Restaurant Group, which operates five Rhode Island restaurants: Public Kitchen & Bar in Providence, Centro Restaurant &...
WPRI: Gracie’s files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
PROVIDENCE – Gracie’s Ventures Inc., the owning entity of Gracie’s restaurant on Washington Street and the adjacent café Ellie’s Bakery, has filed for Chapter...


















