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12/15/2020
Grants will help Ja Patty finish Pawtucket kitchen, expand to wholesale
Conroy Outar, co-founder of Ja Patty in Pawtucket, stands outside the food truck located at 560 Mineral Spring Ave. (Breeze photo by Melanie Thibeault)
PAWTUCKET – When Conroy Outar and Alison Rosario moved into their new space at Lorraine Mills in Pawtucket in March to launch a commercial kitchen for their business, Ja Patty, they weren’t expecting the pandemic to hit a week later.
“We started building it in fall 2019,” Rosario told The Breeze, adding that they moved in “right when things hit. Everything stopped within a week.” After starting their business in 2018, they used to drive their food truck to different events and serve up their menu of fresh-baked Jamaican patties and Caribbean food, but since COVID-19 has put a hold on gatherings, the truck has been parked at 560 Mineral Spring Ave. in Pawtucket, outside the mill building that houses their incomplete commercial kitchen. I