Tag: Hospitality
Uncle Tony’s Pizza reportedly closes Cranston location permanently
CRANSTON – The Uncle Tony’s Pizza and Pasta location that was temporarily closed due to health violations has reportedly shuttered permanently.
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Relationships build sales
Padraic Keane | Keane’s Wood Fired Catering founder and chief of operations
As an entrepreneur in the hospitality industry, it’s easy to spend an enormous...
Olneyville New York System to auction 1954 neon sign to support...
PROVIDENCE – A local restaurant institution is auctioning off a bit of its history to help support the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
In a...
Job gains and free-spending shoppers lifted Wall Street in 2023, but...
NEW YORK (AP) – Job gains and raises helped power solid economic growth in the U.S. last year, but what if those gains were a mirage?
Gross...
PR effort raising profile of local fish on menus
More Rhode Island restaurants and fish markets are taking part in an effort to promote fresh, locally caught seafood than three years ago, according...
Restaurants preparing for ban on Styrofoam containers
On one of his rare days off last summer, Scott Kirmil, owner of six Rhode Island eateries, with plans for a seventh, was sitting...
Report: R.I. economy shows mixed results in Q3 despite historically low...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s economy experienced mixed results across key economic indicators in the third quarter despite the state’s unemployment rate reaching its lowest...
Burke has been delivering ‘old school’ hospitality at Pot au Feu...
Bob Burke, the dean of Providence restaurateurs, owns Pot au Feu, a beloved French bistro that has been open for 50 years.
Upon reading that...
Keane’s Wood Fired Catering kept the fire burning beyond COVID-19
PBN Fastest Growing Companies 2023
$250,000 to $5 million No. 3. Keane’s Wood Fired Catering
CEO (or equivalent): Padraic and Kaylyn Keane, owners
2022 revenue: $1 million
2020...
DLT’s Registered Apprenticeship program gets $353K federal boost
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Labor and Training will receive a $353,679 State Apprenticeship Expansion grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, Sen....


















