In Palmer, Massachusetts, railroad enthusiasts can eat in a former 19th-century train station and spend the night in a Bangor Aroostook caboose from 1947.
Off The Menu: Steaming Tender seeking assistance during pandemic
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
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Over the last 10n months the Lamothe family, which operates the Steaming Tender Restaurant in Palmer, have faced their share of frustrations. Like small business owners of all types, they’ve found themselves struggling to comply with necessary public health restrictions while at the same time trying to keep their restaurant operation a viable enterprise.
On Jan. 5, sisters Linea and Scarlett Lamothe posted a YouTube video describing the challenges they and the rest of the Lamothe family have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video was intended as Steaming Tender’s “application” to the Barstool Fund, a fundraising effort promoted as helping small businesses cope with their current financial distress. Narrated by the two sisters, the video tours the restaurant, describes some of the impacts of the pandemic on Steaming Tender’s operation, and f
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.