Tag: Restaurants
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...
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...
Fueled by family ethics
Not only do they have the same name – the younger named after the older – but Philip Viveiros also took over the third-generation...
Is the state providing enough financial support for restaurants and bars...
Gov. Gina M. Raimondo recently announced grants that will be provided to restaurants, bars and other businesses that can prove losses due to having...
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...
















