PROVIDENCE One executive chef, one sous chef, four line cooks, four prep cooks, two dishwashers, four hosts, six servers and a slew of counter staff.
These are just a handful of the 30 employees Kim Anderson needs to fully staff Plant City in Providence.
Anderson is so desperate to hire trained staff that she is offering a $250 gift certificate to anyone who recommends someone she can hire.
And she is placing a note on every place setting with a list of unfilled jobs and a line that says,” Do you know someone interested in joining our team?”
The second pandemic: That’s what some restaurant owners are calling the dearth of restaurant workers this spring.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner the astute art collector and artist patron is famous for stipulating that her trove of masterpieces remain exactly where she hung them in her historic Boston museum.
But parts of her singular collection have been on the move recently for a first-of-its-kind exhibition titled Off the Wall, which tells the origin story of the collection itself.
A Painting Worth Following
The museum s professional art handlers gently remove an eye-popping 15th century painting from its place on the wall. It’s Italian master Botticelli’s, The Tragedy of Lucretia. Watching it get lifted up off the wall and then taken down is really one of the more nerve-wracking moments for me, Christina Nielsen admitted as she looked on, as a curator I often have to avert my gaze.
COLUMBIA â A local organization is embarking on a new mission to provide relief and support within the community.
Do Something Right Now, a faith-based nonprofit, opened a food pantry on Hogan Drive in Columbia Saturday where volunteers packed food for 150 families.Â
The nonprofit recently bought a house and named it the Hogan House. They transformed the garage into a food pantry. Community members are able to walk up and receive a box of food.Â
But âitâs not just food. Eventually we want this to be a resource for the community,â Sue Riley, the executive director of Do Something Right Now, said.Â