LONGMEADOW - Just 30 hours after a fire destroyed Armata’s Market at the Maple Center Shopping Center in Longmeadow, the business was handing out pre-ordered turkeys and pre-cooked Thanksgiving dinners to customers.
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Arnold’s Meats asks customers to aid in ‘Restaurant Rescue’; promotion touts wholesale customers hurt by COVID
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 08, 2021
8/20/2020 -Chicopee- Larry Katz is the President of Arnold s Meats, the 2021 Reader Raves winner of Best Butcher. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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CHICOPEE Arnold’s Meats knows its wholesale customers restaurants that order meat for their customer’s plates are hurting, and it wants to help out with a “Restaurant Rescue.”
Starting this week, and probably for all of 2021, Arnold’s is selling gift certificates from its restaurant customers at its markets on Grattan Street in Chicopee and Shaker Road in East Longmeadow.
Center Square Grill, Lupa Zoo, 4run3, Armata’s Market tell Sen. Eric Lesser of COVID-19 business hardships
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Live with @ERC5CHAMBER for a small business roundtable on this special morning edition of my #LunchtimeLivestream!https://t.co/0bcamzIQBB Eric Lesser (@EricLesser) December 15, 2020
EAST LONGMEADOW William Collins, owner of of Center Square Grill, remembers hearing on a Sunday night that the state was about to clamp down on restaurants to control COVID-19.
He had $8,000 worth of food due at his business at 8 a.m. And now he was unlikely to sell it before it spoiled.
“Once that food order is in your building, you own it,” Collins said Tuesday on a videoconference hosted by state Sen. Eric P. Lesser, D-Longmeadow, and the East of the River Five Town Chamber of Commerce.