Tag: Hospitality
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...
Dining Out: What’s in a name? During a pandemic, a lot
Who says there is no entertainment at restaurants in this time of COVID-19? The following encounter would have been quite entertaining if it were...
Dining Out: Encouraging numbers
Here in Rhode Island, so many of our choices when it is time to eat revolve around restaurants. It is one of the real...
Dining Out: Naysayers may be wrong
Under normal circumstances, the restaurant industry can be tremendously exciting. Every night is a performance and a roll of the dice. Will our place...
Tipped workers still feeling the pain
Even prior to COVID-19, tipped workers suffered from the inadequacies of the U.S. social safety net and minimum-wage standards.
The pandemic has exposed not only...
Bob Burke, founder and owner, Pot au Feu Restaurant/Independence Trai
PBN 2020 Leaders & Achievers Awards
Bob Burke | Founder and co-owner, Pot au Feu/Independence Trail Educational Foundation
IT IS LOGICAL for a downtown business...
Roughly 90 R.I. restaurants/bars showed some noncompliance; Simone concerned about curfew
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will implement its 11 p.m. shutdown for bars Friday, after Gov. Gina M. Raimondo said during her weekly COVID-19 press...