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Dockside Restaurant in Belfast is surprised with a $1,000 cash tip
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The dockside crew. Photo courtesy Dockside Restaurant
Getting ready to hand Dockside Restaurant cash. Photo courtesy Maine Cater.
Maine Cater’s note that accompanied the money. Photo courtesy Dockside Restaurant
BELFAST Back in December, we wrote a story on Maine Cater, the hospitality company dedicated to serving New England’s food and beverage industry. Husband-and-wife team, Daryle and Orianna Degen were behind the operation to provide restaurants with temporary or full-time employees sort of an industry-specific Indeed.com.
One of Maine Cater’s goals was to give back to those in the industry with a Worker Fund a pool of money that’s generated from employer-paid job listings on Maine Cater’s site.
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The Wrap: Pigeons, pink waffles and blueberry wine
A new Portland restaurant draws its name from the city-dwelling birds, and the Ocean restaurant in the Cape Arundel Inn & Resort opens Friday.
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Pigeons, the new project from Peter and Orenda Hale, has started taking reservations at pigeonsmaine.com for its May 12 opening. The restaurant is located in the former home of Drifters Wife, 59 Washington Ave. in Portland.
Pigeons will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, with a daily happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. The all-day menu includes crudité, French onion soup, a burger, niçoise salad, mussels and bavette steak. For dessert? Salt honey ice cream (with the option to “make it boozy”) and canelé.