Thanks to a few eased restrictions on bar games, the 1Up Arcade Bar has finally been able to reopen its LoDo location, according to owner Jourdan Adler. The games are now spaced to follow social distancing guidelines, and groups are limited to four players each. For food, the Sweet Combforts […]

NEEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Tripadvisor ®, the world’s largest travel platform, today launched Menu Connect, an online listings management solution that enables restaurants to easily publish, update and manage their menu and business information across an expansive network of sites. Menu Connect utilizes SinglePlatform‘s industry-leading technology that was acquired […]

What lies beyond the pandemic? MassForward is MassLive’s series examining the journey of Massachusetts’ businesses through and beyond the coronavirus pandemic. ___________ Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Worcester’s largest venue, the DCU Center, has canceled 212 events through the end of the year. More than 370,000 […]

CLOSE We asked Mayor Joe McCombs to take our quiz and see if he deserves a key to the city Wochit Corpus Christi’s tourism industry is still hurting because of the pandemic, but it has started to recover.  Hotel occupancy rates hit the single digits and averaged lower than 20% around Easter […]

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG) – After months of operating well under capacity, restaurants and bars are allowed to fully reopen in Florida. For businesses in South Walton, the pandemic hit hard. “At 50 percent, you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing when you’re at 100 percent, and of […]

Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email Some convenience stores and restaurants have seen their revenues dented by 60 percent or more in recent months, Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins told Karen Webster. But he said what’s really remarkable is how consistently hopeful, engaged and optimistic businesses are about what comes […]

The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 570,000 people worldwide. Over 12.9 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual […]

BOSTON (SHNS) – Three hundred and forty-nine days since they were last in classrooms, some of Boston’s youngest students went back to school on Monday. The state’s largest school district welcomed back students in pre-kindergarten through grade three whose families had opted in for in-person learning, joining the high-priority students […]

Diners on the outdoor patio at Hippo Restaurant. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times) It was news many restaurateurs were hoping for: After Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state was rescinding its stay-at-home order, Los Angeles County officials declared that outdoor dining could resume by the end of […]

The long-predicted pandemic-fueled dark days of winter are upon us, and as COVID-19 cases spike around the country and the death toll continues to rise, the economic situation gets worse and worse. Some 140,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were lost in December, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in […]