Tag: Newport Restaurant Group
New discoveries await on R.I. restaurant rows
When new restaurants open, it is usually the beginning of an exciting discovery for guests. For restaurateurs and chefs, it is often the culmination...
Hospitality industry tries to counter labor shortage
Michael Costantino struggled to fill two full-time cook positions in May for his restaurant Costantino’s Venda Bar & Ristorante on Providence’s Federal Hill. He...
Employee-owned firms display their resiliency
Chloe Chassaing had seen the news reports in April 2021 about businesses struggling to find enough people to fill positions, particularly in the hospitality...
Newport restaurants rebound
There were some choice words used by many restaurant patrons who dined out this past Valentine’s Day that came as a surprise to hosts,...
Getting the unemployed to take unfilled jobs isn’t so simple
About 45,000 Rhode Islanders have lost their federal unemployment benefits, but prodding them back into the workforce to ease a labor shortage in some...
Dining out: Here’s a newfangled grocery store
What if a group of chefs decided to get together and open a grocery store? What would it look like? For that matter, what...
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....
Eateries look for recipe to solve staff shortage
While many iconic restaurants on Providence’s Federal Hill are starting to see a revival, the lights at Siena on Atwells Avenue remain off, tables...
Dining Out: More R.I. ‘ghost kitchen’ sightings
“Ghost Kitchen” could be the title of a Stephen King cookbook. It is, however, a phenomenon that was muted by the pandemic but appears...
NRG on cutting edge of food innovation
In 2020 it was called “pivoting.” In 2021, it’s called “innovation.”
The first innovation in the food world this year is being undertaken by Newport...
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