Tag: Rhode Island Hospitality Association
Is R.I. vaccine ‘smart card’ needed?
Whether it’s called a vaccine passport or a vaccine smart card, the 401Health cellphone app, a COVID-19 vaccination verification tool, needs to remain optional,...
Lending some help to little guys
SMALL BUSINESS
Ask any Rhode Island small-business owner if they could use more help – loans, grants, coaching, training programs – and it’s safe to...
Dale Venturini
Amidst all the changes and challenges in Rhode Island’s hospitality industry over the past three decades, the leadership of Rhode Island Hospitality Association CEO...
Dining out: A lesson for Salve students
Like the virus and its far-reaching effects, telling the story of the pandemic has been unprecedented. On social media, we receive and react to...
Reports show depth of COVID-19 impact, recovery in R.I’s hospitality sectors
PROVIDENCE – A new set of reports from a Rhode Island Hospitality Association's economic outlook event held Thursday shows an industry hard hit by...
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...
Study: COVID-19 had $2.2B impact on R.I. hospitality and tourism in...
PROVIDENCE – The COVID-19 pandemic impacted Rhode Island’s hospitality and tourism industry to the tune of $2.2 billion in 2020, marking a 30% decline...
UNCLEAR CARNAGE: Just how badly has pandemic hurt R.I.’s small businesses?
Heather Wall still gets emotional when she drives past the empty storefront on Frenchtown Road in North Kingstown.
The darkened space in Hunt River Commons...
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....
Mattiello’s cooking up ways to overcome adversity
PBN 2021 Business Women Awards
Achievement Honoree: Lisa Mattiello, Pranzi Inc.
LISA MATTIELLO HAS ALWAYS loved food, beverages and occasions for people to gather.
Growing up...