Bostonians’ changing work habits and the new importance of delivery for restaurants’ revenue streams are upending traditional suburban leasing strategies and even reshaping what food and beverage tenants need in a potential space.
Shawmut Design and Construction completed the buildout of three new restaurants at the Bower development in Boston’s Fenway: Eastern Standard Kitchen and Drinks, All That Fish + Oyster and Equal Measure.
Black restaurant owners and legislators called for more relief funding as they kicked off the fifth annual Boston Black Restaurant Challenge Tuesday morning, a month-long campaign intended to boost awareness of Black-owned eateries in the greater Boston area.
The omicron variant remains a threat to the long-term recovery of Greater Boston’s many restaurants, forcing owners to implement novel and unconventional methods in order to stay open.
Restaurant and grocery leaders in Massachusetts say they continue to struggle under the combined pressures of inflation, low stock and labor shortages.
Mindful that some of the changes that businesses made to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic could be here to stay, legislators are planning to continue a series of roundtables with restaurant and business owners later this month.
Speaker Ronald Mariano said Thursday that he is open to discussing a reversal of the state’s ban on happy hour drink promotions, but he stopped short of either supporting or opposing the idea.
Restaurant sales in Massachusetts have increased sharply since early April and surpassed their comparable 2019 levels even before most COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.
Foot traffic to food and beverage establishments in the Greater Boston region is up more than 42.5 percent since the beginning of the year and analysts say they see plenty more growth on the horizon.
Thousands of restaurants and bars decimated by the COVID-19 outbreak have a better chance at survival as the government begins handing out $28.6 billion in grants – money to help these small businesses stay afloat while they wait for customers to return.
Hotel, restaurant and retail store owners warn that staffing shortages exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic could force them to limit occupancy, curtail hours and services or shut down facilities entirely just as they’re starting to bounce back from a grim year.
The start of Boston’s outdoor dining program has been moved up from April 1 to March 22 due to the forecast for seasonable weather, Mayor Marty Walsh announced Friday.
Just hours after appearing before lawmakers critical of his administration’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations, Gov. Charlie Baker announced the state was loosening public health restrictions on restaurants and other businesses.
Massachusetts is easing some of its COVID-19 restrictions by increasing the capacity limits on businesses to 40 percent, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Thursday.
Citing improvements to COVID-19 metrics since the start of the year, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Thursday that he will lift the 9:30 p.m. curfew that he imposed in November on restaurants and other businesses, effective Monday.
Up to 35 percent of retail alcoholic beverage licensees and 20 percent of state licensees may not renew in the new year due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s “major economic toll” on bars and restaurants
Gov. Charlie Baker announced new measures Monday afternoon that he called “targeted interventions” to curb a week-long spike in the number of COVID-19 cases statewide.
Developers rely on hip eateries and a never-ending flow of new trendy new chains to generate the excitement and foot traffic needed get new projects off the ground. Now restaurants need the industry’s help amid a delivery fee battle.
Starting Monday, restaurants can seat groups of up to 10 people at indoor and outdoor dining tables – an increase from the current limit of six – and utilize bar seating for food service with the proper distance between patrons.
Alfresco dining has become an important part of the restaurant industry in Massachusetts, having “dramatically increased” when state government prohibited indoor dining to slow the spread of the coronavirus, analysts at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said.
