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HARMONY — The food is great, the craft beer and spirit choices plenty, the outdoor bar is festive, and the mid-19th century architecture amazing. Maybe that’s why the ghosts, believed by the owner of ...
A look at the survival rates for restaurants nationwide might be enough to convince would-be restaurateurs to consider pouring their hearts and souls — and money — into another line of business. But m...
The owner of North Country Brewing in Slippery Rock believes he did everything right. When faced with the initial covid-19 shutdown orders implemented by the governor a year ago — the first of which, right before St. Patrick’s Day, cost him about $32,000 in wasted food — Robert McCafferty closed. He tried to do takeout, he said, but his business just couldn’t sustain it. “It was all very new,” he said. “We understood the severity of everything.” So they made it through last spring, and got to work rebuilding in the summer when some restrictions were lifted, and he could reopen...