Tag: Restaurants
Blount Fine Foods helps community stay fed through COVID-19
PBN Fastest Growing Companies 2022
3. $75 MILLION AND ABOVE: Blount Fine Foods Corp.
CEO (or equivalent): Todd Blount, CEO and president
2021 revenue: $530.9 million
2019 revenue: $432.4...
Regino’s coquito family recipe popular among R.I. bars, restaurants, liquor stores
Though a popular beverage in Puerto Rico, coquito, a coconut-rum liquor, is only sold by four brands throughout the U.S., and by just two...
R.I. delegation urges SBA to provide financial assistance to still-struggling hospitality...
PROVIDENCE – The state’s congressional delegation is pushing the U.S. Small Business Administration to provide financial assistance to restaurants in both Rhode Island and...
A key U.S. inflation gauge reaches 6.8% as prices keep surging
WASHINGTON (AP) – An inflation gauge that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.8% in June from a year ago, the biggest...
Dining Out: Are gratuities shrinking?
Signs are all around us of a return to normal. At long last, things appear to look more like the life we knew before...
Restaurant owners score victory with passage of legislation
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Hospitality Association scored a victory on Thursday as state lawmakers approved passage of two bills that permanently allow restaurants...
Siena restaurant closes Federal Hill location
PROVIDENCE – Citing COVID-19-related hardships, Siena Restaurant Group has announced that its Federal Hill location has been shuttered permanently.
The East Greenwich and Smithfield locations...
Don’t crowd out pedestrians on sidewalks
Outdoor seating helped save countless restaurants across the state over the past year, including many that didn’t have the space on their properties to...
Five Questions With: Frank Picozzi
5Q: Frank Picozzi | Mayor, city of Warwick
1. How has being a small-business owner prepared you for the role of mayor? Being a...
Target hospitality inequities
Hotels and restaurants have been too busy trying to find enough workers this summer to sort through the long-term pandemic fallout.
But as this week’s...
