Virginia Restaurant, Lodging & Travel Association, DoorDash announce recipients of $450,000 in grants
Published Saturday, May. 1, 2021, 8:02 am
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The Virginia Restaurant, Lodging & Travel Association announced recipients of our 2021 DoorDash Restaurant Operator Relief Grant program.
The initiative is part of DoorDash’s Main Street Strong Pledge, which included a $10M grant effort in select cities, counties, and states across the U.S. and Canada.
Grant criteria included businesses with no more than three locations with 50 or fewer employees and annual gross revenue of $3 million or less for the location applied for, with a brick-and-mortar location, that experienced a reduction in revenue, financial stress, or disrupted operations from March 2020 thro
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Several COVID-19 restrictions on Virginia businesses are set to relax next month, allowing owners to expand and serve more customers. But there s a big problem. Restaurant managers can t seem to get back the workers they lost during the pandemic, and some business leaders say unemployment is partly to blame.
By: Tyler Layne
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RICHMOND, Va. Several COVID-19 restrictions on Virginia businesses are set to relax next month, allowing owners to expand and serve more customers.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Restaurants in Virginia can open their bars to customers for the first time in more than a year thanks to a sudden, unannounced change that came late Wednesday afternoon â but patrons may want to hold off on immediate plans to belly up to one: many Richmond restaurant owners say theyâre not yet ready to open theirs.
The bar seating change came via an amended executive order signed Wednesday afternoon by Gov. Ralph Northam and allows restaurants to use their bar seating with 6 feet of distance between partiesâand 6 feet between bar seats and other seating, such as bar-area tables.
Virginia Green Travel Alliance announces winners of 2021 Virginia Green Travel Star Awards
Published Thursday, Apr. 22, 2021, 10:08 am
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The Virginia Green Travel Alliance is honoring Virginia’s greenest tourism operators and partners for their outstanding commitments to sustainability and contributions to green tourism in Virginia.
This year, 15 Virginia tourism operations were chosen to receive the Virginia Green program’s highest award, the Virginia Green Travel Star Award. Eleven additional tourism businesses are being recognized with the Virginia Green Travel Leader Award for their continued commitments to environmental stewardship, and sixindividuals are receiving the Green Team All-Star Award for their efforts to lead their organizations’ green program efforts.
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