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Stewarts Shops celebrate reopening with ice cream Business staff FacebookTwitterEmail SARATOGA SPRINGS — Stewarts Shops will introduce a new ice cream flavor — Sweet Return to Normal — on Monday, Memorial Day, to celebrate the end of the 14-month pandemic lockdown. “I think we can all agree, Covid-19 has taken a toll on everyone in some way," said Stewarts President Gary Dake. "We all crave a return to normal, and this ice cream flavor is dedicated to just that.”  The new flavor, ava...

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The president of Stewarts Shops, Gary Dake is once again honored as one of the regions...

WATERTOWN — Just like at many other businesses, staff at A New Attitude Salon and Spa met Tuesday afternoon to discuss new mask rules set to begin the next day. The reaction has been mixed. Some people are feeling the liberation of it all. Others aren’t as quick to remove the masks. Small, local businesses seem a little more skeptical after more than a year of doing everything they can to simply be open — let alone enforce masks. That almost just started feeling easy to do. Or th...

May 19, 2021 Photo: News 10 ABC Stewarts shops President Gary Dake announces that vaccinated customers will be allowed in stores without a mask. This comes after Governor Cuomo announced a change in the mask mandate allowing vaccinated individuals to not wear masks in buildings. Starting Monday, all employees will also follow the updated mask guidelines and must provide proof of being fully vaccinated to store management to be exempt from wearing a mask. Customers will not be required to show...

Tops, Stewart’s join list of stores that won’t require masks for vaccinated customers Updated 8:54 AM; Today 8:07 AM This 2019 file photo shows the Tops Friendly Markets store at Town Center in Fayetteville.Stephen D. Cannerelli | syracuse.com Facebook Share Tops Friendly Markets and Stewart’s Shops are joining the growing list of stores that won’t require fully vaccinated customers to wear a mask inside. Tops updated its website Tuesday to say “face coverings are optional for those...

Some jobs go begging as economy emerges from pandemic’s shadow | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS PHOTO PROVIDED Nick Durrum is shown working in the Stewarts Shops milk processing plant in Greenfield. There are 32 job openings at the plant and a combined 1,200-plus elsewhere across the companys 350 locations. Shares0 ALBANY — Fewer people are working in the Capital Region than a year ago and fewer appear to be seeking work. There were 5.7% fewer jobs in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan S...

Stewarts employees now own 40 percent of company FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Buy PhotoStewart’s Shops President Gary Dake checks out a customer at the Arbor Hill Stewarts Shop on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. Dake came to the shop to work the register and to personally thank customers for their generosity for the companys Holiday Match program. The shop, located on Henry Johnson Boulevard, had the highest growth in the first half of the Holiday Match season, with a 244% g...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Stewart’s Shops employees now own more than 40% of the company through profit sharing, the convenience store chain announced. Just last week, 2,850 partners received their 2020 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) statements, a press release from the company said, noting that their accounts received approximately 20% growth and a $19 million contribution, which is about 19% of their 2020 pay. There are now 105 partners with a balance of more than $1 million, a...

Stewarts Shops Reveals More Details on Express Locations SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Stewarts Shops is unveiling plans for the first five smaller-concept Stewarts Express convenience stores for the upstate New York market. Stewarts Express — which "will be a test to see how these shops perform with a decreased product offering and the omission of hand-scooped ice cream, milkshakes, salads, sandwiches, soup or meatballs — comes off the heels of Stewarts Shops acquisition of fellow Sara...