Restaurants and Food Service
More relief is coming for restaurants from the federal government, the Times-Union is reporting. The overall relief package that is working its way through Congress now includes $25 billion in restaurant funding. The aid would be loss-based and cover the difference between the money earned in 2019 and that earned in 2020. The grants are aimed at smaller establishments and no cap has been placed on the size of the grants yet, the story says. [For some of our coverage on this: Restaurants look to 2022 read here. Grants for restaurants here. Political discussion here.]
Events such as weddings will open again on March 15 in New York, but how? That’s the question the Albany Business Journal took up in a story that runs today. Rules outlined by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday limit the total guests at a wedding to 150 people or 50% of a venue’s capacity, and attendees are required to be tested first. Questions remain about just how that will happen.
Northway Exit 11, Round Lake, is getting a Dunkin' Donuts that is home to a gas station, if all goes according to the plan of Tom Burke III, a story in the ABJ says. Burke took over almost two dozen restaurants in the area from Malta to Queensbury when his uncle died in 2017, and now he is building the restaurant with drive thru and gas. This is a first. Usually the donut shop is part of a larger gas and convenience store, not the other way around.
Entertainment and Sports
The Connecticut Whale women’s hockey team has dropped out of the National Women’s Hockey League tournament in Lake Placid, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting. Neither the team nor the league has given a reason. The Whale forfeited a game against the Minnesota Whitecaps. They gave no reason for their departure, and they are the second team to bow out, leaving four teams to vye for the Isobel Cup in the “bubble” tournament.