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Videos of the two 2014 “Food will help Rhode Island grow™” Town Halls

by David Dadekian September 8, 2014
written by David Dadekian
At the R.I. Gubernatorial candidates forum, from left to right: Todd Giroux, Ken Block, Gina Raimondo, Clay Pell, Allan Fung, Angel Taveras, Jessica Wood, Ben Wood, David Dadekian, Michael Reppucci

At the R.I. Gubernatorial candidates forum, from left to right: Todd Giroux, Ken Block, Gina Raimondo, Clay Pell, Allan Fung, Angel Taveras, Jessica Wood, Ben Wood, David Dadekian, Michael Reppucci

In August, Eat Drink RI produced two Town Hall style forums, one with the candidates for governor of Rhode Island on Wednesday, August 13th, at the Sons of Liberty Spirits Distillery in South Kingstown moderated by David Dadekian and Wildwood co-owner Jessica Wood, and one with the candidates for mayor of Providence on Monday, August 18th, at The Café at Easy Entertaining in Providence moderated by Dadekian and Easy Entertaining owner Kaitlyn Roberts.

Based upon Eat Drink RI’s motto “Food will help Rhode Island grow™,” each Town Hall focused specifically on the food and beverage industry. Thank you to all the candidates—Ken Block, Allan Fung, Todd Giroux, Clay Pell, Gina Raimondo, Angel Taveras, Jorge Elorza, Dan Harrop, Michael Solomon, Brett Smiley and Chris Young—for participating and to the Rhode Island Food Policy Council and the RI Small Business Journal for their sponsorship support. Note: the Gubernatorial forum video was put together from a number of different sources, apologies for the mismatched sound and choppiness. It is complete with the exception of two dropouts, the beginning of a question being asked by Moderator Wood and a single sentence from one of Ken Block’s answers.

Eat Drink RI’s “Food will help Rhode Island grow™” Town Hall with the R.I. Gubernatorial Candidates

 

Eat Drink RI’s “Food will help Rhode Island grow™” Town Hall with the Providence Mayoral Candidates

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Eat Drink RI Presents Two “Food will help Rhode Island grow™” Town Halls: Gubernatorial Candidates on August 13 and Providence Mayoral Candidates on August 18

by David Dadekian June 10, 2014
written by David Dadekian

Eat Drink RI Presents Two Food Will Help Rhode Island Grow Town HallsEat Drink RI along with Sons of Liberty Spirits, Wildwood, Easy Entertaining, the RI Small Business Journal, and the RI Food Policy Council, have put together two Town Hall style forums, one with the candidates for governor of Rhode Island on Wednesday, August 13th, at the Sons of Liberty Spirits Distillery in South Kingstown and one with the candidates for mayor of Providence on Monday, August 18th, at The Café at Easy Entertaining in Providence. Both forums will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a reception immediately following.

Based upon Eat Drink RI’s motto “Food will help Rhode Island grow™,” each Town Hall will focus specifically on the food and beverage industry, asking the candidates for governor and mayor of our capital city how they plan on encouraging further growth in the industry, and their plans to work with and assist culinary businesses grow our economy. As Eat Drink RI founder and President David Dadekian says, “The next revolution in jobs and new businesses will be in the food and beverage industry, and Rhode Island is poised to be at the forefront of that economic growth through our restaurants, agriculture, aquaculture, food & beverage producers, distributors and much more.”

A portion of the questions to be asked at each Town Hall will be collected by Eat Drink RI from Rhode Islanders who own businesses and are workers in the food and beverage industry. While organizers expect high attendance by industry professionals, the events will be open to the public with registration for free tickets at eatdrinkri.com. Topics to be discussed may include support for existing culinary businesses, regulatory reforms, how to incubate new business, access to healthier food and increasing local purchasing.

Rhode Island Gubernatorial Candidates Town Hall – tickets here

  • Confirmed: Ken Block, Allan Fung, Todd Giroux, Clay Pell, Gina Raimondo and Angel Taveras
  • Wednesday, August 13th, 6:30 p.m. at Sons of Liberty Spirits, 1425 Kingstown Rd., South Kingstown, RI 02879
  • Moderated by Eat Drink RI’s David Dadekian and Wildwood’s Jessica Wood
  • There will be a reception sponsored by Sons of Liberty and Wildwood following the session with the candidates.

Providence Mayoral Candidates Town Hall – tickets here

  • Confirmed: Jorge Elorza, Dan Harrop, Michael Solomon, Brett Smiley and Chris Young
  • Monday, August 18th, 6:30 p.m. at Easy Entertaining, 166 Valley St., Providence, RI 02909
  • Moderated by Eat Drink RI’s David Dadekian and Easy Entertaining’s Kaitlyn Roberts
  • There will be a reception sponsored by Easy Entertaining following the session with the candidates.

The food and beverage sector in Rhode Island is one of the few consistently growing areas in our economy with long established businesses thriving and new ones opening almost weekly. Business owners are passionate about the culinary scene here as evidenced by the thoughts of some of the Town Halls sponsors:

Jessica Wood, co-owner of Wildwood, says “I love Rhode Island! LOVE IT! Rhode Island has ocean front farmland, how can you beat that? My commitment to this state is based in employment as well as sourcing local foods. As a company we take pride in sourcing from local farms. We have taken company field trips to meet the farmers and truly understand where our food is coming from. I also commit to employing Rhode Islanders. To do this we need support from our government to truly be successful in this movement.”

Michael Reppucci, CEO & Founder at Sons of Liberty Spirits Co., says, “Rhode Island farmers and their products have made our whiskey stand in its own class. We use locally grown cucumbers and pumpkins in our spirits and have won spirits awards at the world competition level for them.”

Kaitlyn Roberts, owner and executive chef of Easy Entertaining Inc., says “As deeply entrenched members of the Providence community, we are honored to have been selected as the venue for the Providence Mayoral caucus. As a company, our core values revolve around locally minded cuisine, seasonal ingredients and exceptional customer service. I am extremely excited to be co-moderating the caucus with David Dadekian of Eat Drink RI. I am looking forward to relaying the questions that we have as service industry leaders and those of my peers. Ensuring that the city runs as a well-oiled machine is critical to our success as major players in the hospitality industry, and being a part of this caucus will only allow us to discuss the different ideas of achieving that goal.”

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News Bites: RI DEM Farm Viability Grants, Providence Storefront Improvement, The Revolving Door

by David Dadekian March 2, 2014
written by David Dadekian
The Revolving Door in Newport

The Revolving Door in Newport

Current news releases—Eat Drink RI is not the source for these items—please follow any links for more information.

DEM ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF FARM VIABILITY GRANT FUNDS TO ENHANCE AND PROMOTE RHODE ISLAND SPECIALTY CROPS

The Department of Environmental Management announces that $150,000 in farm viability grant funds is available through DEM for grants to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops grown in Rhode Island. The funds are from the US Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant program. Specialty crops are defined by this federally-supported program as fruits and vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, and nursery crops including floriculture and turf grass production.

Grant awards will range from $10,000 to $50,000 with no direct match required. Funding will be provided in two stages, with 50 percent of the monies given up front and the remainder provided at the satisfactory completion of the project. The grants may be used for projects of up to two years in duration.

Funds may be used for research, promotion, marketing, nutrition, trade enhancement, food safety, food security, plant health, product development, education, “buy local” initiatives, and for programs that provide for increased consumption and innovation, improved efficiency and reduced costs of distribution systems, environmental concerns and conservation, and development of cooperatives. Grant funds may not be spent on construction projects.

“These grants will help sustain the livelihood of Rhode Island farmers and promote the long-term viability of agriculture in our state,” said DEM Director Janet Coit. “All across Rhode Island we can see the tremendous growth of agriculture, from the expanded network of farmers’ markets to the promotion of local foods in our outstanding restaurants. Consumer demand for locally-grown products is constantly increasing, and these grant funds will help strengthen markets for specialty crops grown in Rhode Island.”

DEM’s Division of Agriculture oversees numerous efforts designed to maintain the viability of farming in Rhode Island, including locally-produced milk, meats and locally-harvested seafood, farmers’ markets, and buy local and agri-tourism programs. “The Specialty Crop Block Grant program is one of many efforts by DEM to support the local agriculture and food economy,” noted Ken Ayars, chief of DEM’s Division of Agriculture. “Past grants have fueled and continue to support initiatives such as Farm Fresh RI, the RI Farm to School program, research projects at URI, and marketing and promotion initiatives. We look forward to another round of strong projects to support via the current grant round.”

Any Rhode Island agricultural or educational association or organization, individual farmer, or resident is eligible to apply. Grant applications and projects must further the competitiveness of specialty crops as broadly as possible in Rhode Island, and not just serve to enhance individual farm viability pursuant to USDA program guidelines. Grant funds will not be awarded for projects that solely benefit a particular commercial product or provide a profit to a single organization, institution, or individual. Single organizations, institutions, and individuals are encouraged to participate as project partners.

A downloadable application is available on DEM/Agriculture website at www.rigrown.ri.gov by clicking on “Grant Opportunities” on the left side of the homepage. For grant-related questions, contact Peter Susi, deputy chief of DEM’s Division of Agriculture at 222-2781, ext. 4517. Applications accompanied by a W9 form must be postmarked no later than March 31, 2014 and sent to DEM’s Division of Agriculture, Room 370, 235 Promenade Street, Providence, RI 02908 to be considered. Completed applications may also be emailed to [email protected] in word format by the March 31st deadline. Grant proposals will be reviewed by the DEM Agricultural Advisory Committee, which will make funding recommendations to the Department.

The 2,500 green industry businesses in Rhode Island sustain 12,300 jobs and contribute $1.7 billion annually to our state’s economy. On top of these economic benefits, agriculture also contributes to tourism, open space, quality of life, and access to local foods and horticultural products.


Mayor Taveras Launches Storefront Improvement Program to Revitalize Building Facades, Support Small Businesses

Program is a priority in Mayor’s economic development action plan, Putting Providence Back to Work

Mayor Angel Taveras, joined by local business owners and business leaders, announced the launch of a new storefront improvement program this morning. The program will support the revitalization of building facades and small businesses across Providence. The initiative is one of the steps identified in Mayor Taveras’ 20-point economic development plan, Putting Providence Back to Work.

“Providence is known for its diverse, historic neighborhoods, which are anchored by small businesses,” said Mayor Taveras. “The storefront improvement program is designed to attract customers to existing businesses, revitalize local business districts, and enhance the beauty and safety of Providence’s neighborhoods.”

Participating businesses are eligible to receive reimbursements for 50-percent of eligible storefront costs, up to $10,000. The city’s Department of Economic Development will assist small businesses that wish to make changes to their exterior storefronts, including awnings, signage, windows, doors, permanent landscaping, and façade improvements. The program is open to small businesses with 18 or fewer full-time employees.

This morning’s announcement was held at Los Andes Restaurant on Chalkstone Avenue.

“We’re excited to see a new storefront improvement program in Providence and look forward to applying for funding to help revitalize our restaurant,” said Cesin Curi, co-owner of Los Andes Restaurant. “Customers are often attracted by the look of our storefronts and the funding will help us to draw new customers while beautifying our neighborhood.”

To be eligible for the program, a business must meet at least one of the following criteria:

  • Business serves a predominantly low/moderate income population
  • Business will be able to create a job for a low/moderate income individual
  • Business will be removing neighborhood blight as part of the project

The program is funded with $250,000 from the Providence Economic Development Partnership, and applications will be accepted, reviewed and approved on a rolling basis, based on the availability of funding.
“This is a great opportunity to make a direct impact in the economic well-being of our small businesses, while improving the quality of life of our neighborhoods,” said James S. Bennett, director of economic development.

More information is available at www.providenceri.com/storefront.


Guest Chef Debut At Newport’s Revolving Door

New York Personal Chef Makes Guest Appearance At Newport’s Revolving Door Restaurant

Private chef Isabella Lirakis of Newport and New York will be the next guest chef at The Revolving Door, the exciting new restaurant concept in Newport developed by Chef Albert and Sarah Bouchard.

Isabella, whose catering-personal chef-spa cuisine business is known as IsaCooks, is widely known as a food stylist, artist and photographer who has worked with well-known chefs in New York. She describes her food as “Influenced by the essence of French Cuisine, always cooking in season.”

Her menu selections at The Revolving Door will include Veal Cassoulet with Sauteed Parsnips; Spicy Bay Scallops, Edamame Puree & Faux Kimchee; Moroccan Honey Glazed Quail with Cauliflower Gratin, Curried Lentils, Grilled Eggplant and Raita with Forbidden Rice.

Chef Isa will make her debut on the weekend of March 6th.

The Revolving Door is an exciting new concept in restaurants which allows guest chefs to showcase their culinary skills. A rotating schedule allows chefs to stay a week or even up to a month, and experiment with fresh local ingredients and menu options. In addition, Resident Chef Josh Berman offers Restaurant Bouchard signature steak frites and shrimp provencale nightly.

The Revolving Door is located at 509 Thames Street in Newport next to Restaurant Bouchard. Information and reservations are available at revolvingdoorri.com or by calling 401-846-0400.

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The Latest on the Battle for Cluck! Your Help Is Still Needed

by David Dadekian April 29, 2013
written by David Dadekian
Drake Patten (in foreground) speaking to crowd at Cluck! on April 14, photo courtesy of Mike Ritz

Drake Patten (in foreground) speaking to crowd at Cluck! on April 14, photo courtesy of Mike Ritz

I’ve written twice before about Cluck’s attempts to open an urban farm supply store at 399 Broadway in Providence. Unfortunately, after many months of planning, build-out, stocking the store with inventory and constant persistence from Cluck’s owner Drake Patten, the store has still not been able to open it’s doors. Now, more than ever, in this fight to not only open a store but to do what’s right for small business in Rhode Island, Cluck needs your support to move forward.

This is not going to be a brief story, if you don’t read all the way through, please do visit the Indiegogo “A few bucks for Cluck” campaign and pledge whatever you are able to help Cluck get through this legal battle. As you will read below, this has been and continues to be an arduous process, and if you’d like to see an urban farm supply business like Cluck succeed your financial support is greatly appreciated.

To find out what’s gone on before this, please read, Support Cluck! Urban Farm Supply on Broadway in Providence, and then come back to this story.

A lot has happened in the last couple of months since the City of Providence Zoning Board of Review ruled in favor of  the zoning variance needed for Cluck to open. The opposition to Patten’s store, Anthony Paolino, Monica Paolino, John Paterra, Elizabeth Monaco and Sts. Vartanantz Church, filed an appeal for a stay of the business and an overturn of the zoning decision.

Unfortunately, the judge ruled in favor of the opposition. Patten posted a full explanation of the proceedings to the Cluck Facebook page and in short, John Paterra and Elizabeth Monaco, both of 414 Broadway, claimed to be legal abutters who were not informed of the Zoning Board of Review meeting, even though Paterra had previously signed and notarized a petition to the Zoning Board being circulated by Sts. Vartanantz Church. In this writer’s opinion, the opposition’s lawyer used a legal technicality to win.

Patten can go through the Zoning process again, this time making sure to inform all abutters of the process. There’s no reason to think the 4-to-1 decision in her favor would change this second time around. However, the financial burden this legal battle has taken on Patten and her business has become heavy. It cost approximately $10,000 to go through the Zoning Board of Review decision the first time, and before the appeal loss Patten went ahead and renovated the 399 Broadway space, fully-stocking it with merchandise for the spring growing season, an investment of perhaps $60,000 or more.

Cluck! Urban Farm Supply artist rendition of exterior

Cluck! Urban Farm Supply artist rendition of exterior

To help with this financial burden, Coryndon Luxmoore, a user experience designer at Buildium and advocate for a strong Rhode Island design and startup community, created a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo called “A few bucks for Cluck” with the hopes of helping Patten’s continuing legal battle. It is imperative to give if you can to fund this fight since it is definitely not slowing.

Since the ruling to overturn the Zoning variance, Patten was able to acquire a City of Providence peddler’s license and hold a makeshift yard sale on the 399 Broadway property for the last couple of weeks. Patten can’t open the store and sell out of it. However, with her landlord’s permission, Patten has been able to set up a few carts of merchandise and sell what she has out on the lot for the day. It’s far from a great situation, but at least it allows her to move some merchandise, especially merchandise which is very seasonally dependent.

This form of sale is licensed by the city, though that didn’t stop the opposition from sending City Building Inspectors with a Notice of Violation on Thursday, April 25th. Fortunately the City of Providence recognized that Patten can’t be violating a license that the City itself granted her, and the Notice was withdrawn the following day. Clearly not finished in harrassing Patten, on Monday, April 29th the opposition’s lawyer served Patten’s lawyer with a restraining order.

The effects of the restraining order remain to be seen. A new Zoning Board date of Monday, May 13th has been issued and Patten asks that supporters once again send an email or a letter of support to the Zoning Board of Review via Peter Carnevale, Director of Zoning, at [email protected]. Please attend the hearing on May 13 at 5:30 p.m. at 444 Westminster Street, at the corner of Empire Street and Westminster Street.

That looks to be the story so far. You can follow Cluck’s updates on their Facebook page. Below is a report on the community gathering that happened at Cluck two weeks ago. Transcripts of some of Patten’s speech along with comments from local politicians and my interview with Providence Mayor Taveras follow.

Gathering at Cluck! on April 14

Gathering at Cluck! on April 14

On April 14th a crowd of almost 200 people gathered at 399 Broadway to voice their support for Cluck at an event West Side resident Mike Ritz helped put together. Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, State Representative John J. Lombardi and Providence City Councilman Bryan Principe all were in attendance and Lombardi and Principe both spoke to the crowd. The owners of several Providence small businesses, Adler’s Hardware, Jephry Floral Studio, Julians, Stock Culinary Goods and The Grange, all voiced their support for Cluck.

Patten offered the following remarks, some in answer to questions from the crowd.

“This is a big deal. You are a big deal to me today. Looking out over this crowd I can’t believe it. I just wanted to open a business. That was the goal. There has been a lot of misinformation about this business. This is a small business that wants to be part of the evolution of this city. I believe and I think many of you believe that we have to grow and change as a city and this business is an example of that.

“I think the misinformation has been spread in part around what I’m doing here. This is urban farm supply. I want to help people grow food. We are a city that’s committed to grow food. Today is a larger conversation about what our city will be and in specific this neighborhood which is struggling between old ideas and new ideas and somehow this little business, unwillingly, is in the middle of that conversation.

As I look out across this crowd I see the future and I see your support as getting my doors open. I’ll be honest with you, we have to start over in this zoning process. It’s been expensive. It’s cost close to $10,000.00 to go through the zoning. It was hard for me and hard for me and it was a big decision. But when I looked out over this crowd today I decided we’re going to do it again. I’m going to need your support and I’m going to rely on the support of the City and our elected officials, who by the way have been extraordinary, and that’s no small thing. I want this to be a celebration of what will happen here. I’m going to need your support to move this forward and I know I can count on you.

Reach out to our elected officials, who are our voice, and talk about not just this business but how we will open other businesses. Both our mayor and our governor have committed to small business. This is a case study about how this will happen. We need financing. I’m doing this business with investors and private financing. We need as much as we can to have financing that’s not necessarily private, that comes from other agencies. We have a great EDC. We need to support that because this is the future of our city.

I don’t accept that there’s a political machine. There are politics and there are politics at play here. I’m a bit of a Pollyanna. I will go through the legal process as I did before and this time we won’t forget to notify a person. I will have faith in the Zoning Board. I think they made a very fair decision last time. Nothing has changed. If anything we have this incredible example of what can be here. So I’m going to place my faith in the legal system. That may be foolish but I have to believe.

Any business that comes into this location will change potentially the traffic situation. So whether it’s Cluck or anything else it will change it. We are providing parking spaces on-site, the legal number that we have to provide, and importantly we have built a business on a bike route and a bus route, that was intentional. We also will be doing delivery. We don’t expect that the majority of people who come here will be in cars. This is a business that is designed for a walkable city and a public transportation city. And in closing and limiting our curb cuts, we will also be providing new spaces. So in all those ways we have been thoughtful about the impact on the street and actually see what we’re doing as increasing parking spaces for those who need it but not really for the people who necessarily will come here. We will have adequate on-site parking at any time.”

Providence Mayor Angel Taveras didn’t speak at the event, but I took a moment to ask him his thoughts.

eat drink RI: Why did you come here today?

Mayor Angel Taveras: I came to listen. Any time you have your citizens organized around an issue . . . This is a Sunday morning, to see over a hundred people out here, that’s good. We need more community involvement. I think that we can always learn how we can do things better. We always try to strive to improve the process. We’ll look to do that. This whole process, it’s unfortunate that Drake has to go through it again, but what we’re going to do is use it as an opportunity to examine what has happened and what can we do better as a city and what can we do better to be supportive of applicants and how can we improve the process.

edRI: I approach it from a food angle. There’s been great movement in the city for urban farming, but there’s still a lot of food insecurity and a lot of food deserts. Do you think something like this could help that?

MAT: I’m very supportive of sustainability. I look at it even broader than just food. It is sustainability and this is a big part of it. That’s why I supported the Fertile Underground. I’ve been very supportive of the Southside Community Land Trust. We just started Lots of Hope, where we’re going to turn abandoned lots into urban farms. When you talk about the issue more specifically like that, it’s something that I believe in. [I’ve] been working very hard with Healthy Communities [Office] that we started, Peter Asen leading that effort. And you’re so right about the food deserts that exist in our city and it’s something that we need to address to make everybody eating better and this is a great opportunity. It’s an important issue and I’d like to see us do an even better job. We are leaders with respect to it, but we need to continue to lead.

From City Councilman Principe:

“Small business is the backbone of the Rhode Island economy. . . .You are the backbone of our community. You are the backbone that keep our small businesses thriving in a time when we so desperately need that. Keep up the support. Remain vigilant, as you are. Remain respectful, as you are, even with those with differing opinions on the issue. That’s the way we do things here. When we come to the politics of this, I know the city has been supportive. Drake and I have had numerous conversations in regards to the issues that she is facing and we will take the lessons learned from this, adjust and revise, as we welcome a new business into our community.”

From State Representative Lombardi:

“Is it [Cluck] going to create congestion? Is it going to create bad atmosphere? And I say, because I live within the 200′ radius, bike paths, busses, major thoroughfare, walking distance, come on, what congestion? It just makes no sense. This building was empty for many, many years, and it was the subject of graffiti, prostitution, drugs, vandalism. It was an eyesore. It was a pall on the neighborhood.

The resistance that you’re getting is the naysayers, the traditional, perennial naysayers who don’t live in the neighborhood. They have property in the neighborhood. They represent that they live in the neighborhood. But guess what? They’re not being truthful. This was an opportunity for free parking for many individuals and I say . . . if we can get more people in this neighborhood to create business, to buy gasoline, to hire an accountant, to go and pray, to hire a lawyer . . . isn’t it what it’s all about?

This is about doing the right thing. What did it cost her in merchandise? What about her sweat equity? You’re not talking $10-$20K here, you’re probably already talking over $100K. So bear that in mind. She’s going to need your support. Support her.”

Regarding the Indiegogo “A few bucks for Cluck” campaign, Luxmoore emailed:

“Starting a campaign for my friend Drake is a natural extension of my interest in seeing new businesses start in Providence and watching Sin work so hard at becoming successful. I felt that providing a forum for contributing would provide a meaningful way for others who wanted to see this kind of progress to contribute, in addition to expressing their feelings online and to their elected officials. Finally, this delay to a small business that is dependent on the spring season to make a large percentage of their revenue could easily be a deathblow. My hope is this will be a small way of reducing that impact and to demonstrate to private investors that the community is willing to put their money where their mouth is in supporting the business.”

Below is a video West Broadway community leader Elaine Collins made at the April 14th event.

Again, if you are able, please give to the Indiegogo “A few bucks for Cluck” campaign.

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