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SOUTH HADLEY Restaurateur and businessman Andrew Yee died Thursday surrounded by family. He was 59 and would have turned 60 next week. Known for his hospitality and devotion to his family and his family’s Bean Restaurant Group, Yee drew eulogies just hours after his passing. He was part of a team, which included Peter Picknelly, that saved both Student Prince Cafe and The Fort Dining Room in .
Off The Menu: Restaurant service pivots from businesses to homes
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Restaurant delivery has become an integral part of the contemporary dining experience, and Alchemista, Boston-based food service innovator, is melding delivery with technology to facilitate the at-home enjoyment of restaurant food.
Founded in 2012 to provide chef-quality meals in upscale office settings, Alchemista suddenly found itself mostly without customers when lockdowns rolled out last March.
Alchemista has since pivoted to a program of high-tech food lockers it had previously developed for smaller clients, at the same time creating delivery partnerships with two Boston-area restaurateurs.
The company has been installing what it refers to “on-demand modular marketplaces” in the lobbies of luxury apartment buildings. Ten of these installations, which the company has branded as “The Locket,” were in place across greater Boston as of March, with more rolling out weekly.
Off The Menu: PepsiCo opens ‘ghost’ restaurant, Pep’s Place
Updated May 08, 5:08 AM;
Posted May 06, 10:08 AM
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Wine and food pairings have long been a part of the dining experience, but now one major consumer goods company has decided to promote the unconventional idea of choosing the food you’ll eat so as to harmonize with the soft drink you’ve picked out.
As part of a month-long promotion of its brands, beverage and snack food giant PepsiCo has created a “ghost” restaurant, Pep’s Place. Operating in conjunction with three major delivery services (Uber Eats, GrubHub, and DoorDash) and only available in selected markets, Pep’s Place, as PepsiCo’s press materials put it, “is where the cola comes first.”
As COVID restrictions ease, Springfield fixes roads, sidewalks to help boost outdoor dining
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
Posted Apr 28, 2021
Fort Street has received a new surface at The Student Prince restaurant, part of downtown improvements in Springfield, April 28, 2021. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD As COVID-19 restrictions ease and the weather improves, some local restaurateurs are counting on road and sidewalk improvements to boost their plans for outdoor dining areas.
The city’s work so far has included repaving Fort Street outside the Student Prince Cafe and Fort Restaurant, as well as an ongoing project to expand the sidewalk outside Theodore’s Restaurant on Worthington Street. A lighting improvement project is in progress on Main Street in the South End.