Tag: Hospitality
Stepping Up: Newport Craft brewing up donations from sales to help...
NEWPORT – Virtually every city and town across the globe is facing its share of challenges in having to indefinitely shut down its respective...
Many R.I. hotels have checked out for now
It’s early spring, a time when people normally are planning their summer vacations.
But 2020 isn’t normal, for reasons that have become distressingly obvious to...
Thriving Matunuck Oyster Farm has fed offshoot businesses
Matunuck Oyster Farm LLC, a 7-acre plot in South Kingstown’s Potter Pond, is home to countless oysters that will eventually end up on a...
R.I. shutting down restaurant dining for two weeks; Providence Place mall...
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo on Monday morning announced that the state will shut down dine-in services at all restaurants, bars and cafes...
Synchronized skating championships expected to generate millions for Providence, Warwick
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center are expected to generate $2.8 million in direct spending in the Providence...
Winding career path led restaurateur home to Newport
Geremie Callaghan and her husband, Jeff, were on their third date, at LeBistro, on Bannister’s Wharf at Newport Harbor in 1993.
The cozy restaurant proved...
2019 was the year of ‘Uber to table’
The year 2019 may well be remembered in dining circles as one during which a major change took place on both sides of the...
Newport bed and breakfast is all about dogs
An all-dog inn?
Christopher Bicho, president of Landings Real Estate Group, wasn’t the one who came up with the idea. But Paws on Pelham, a...
Puglisi named new general manager of The Vanderbilt
MASSIMILIANO PUGLISI was recently named the new general manager of The Vanderbilt mansion hotel in Newport. Puglisi, a native of Italy, has worked in...
R.I. meal, beverage tax collections decline 3.9% in 2018
PROVIDENCE – Meal and beverage tax collections from Rhode Island restaurants declined 3.9 percent in 2018 to $14.6 million compared with the $15.2 million...


















