This has been a tough year for the hospitality industry and few organizations are more aware of that than the Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association (PRLA). The Central Penn Business Journal recently sat down with John Longstreet, president of the PRLA, to talk about how its members are coping with the pandemic and what the organization is doing to help. 

With restaurants and other hospitality businesses facing some of the earliest and largest financial losses from COVID-19, one local company established an online resource to help raise more than $200 million for them.

Friends and Boiling Springs residents Devin Flickinger and Mark Farrell teamed up this summer to open Hook & Flask Still Works at 137 N. Hanover Street in downtown Carlisle. The pair, who are making history as the first distillery to open is Carlisle since Prohibition, are also volunteer firefighters for the Monroe Fire Co. and chose Carlisle for its craft beverage scene.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision regarding residency requirements for liquor sales in Tennessee is giving hope to some Pennsylvania distillers, who see direct shipping of vodka, rum and gin as the future of their industry. Others, however, are more circumspect. Robert Cassell, president of the Pennsylvania Distillers Guild, said shipping spirits directly to consumers ...

Bill Kohler, 53, joined Mainstreet Waynesboro in 2016 and serves as director of economic development.

In 1925, the York community was tasked with building a hotel, a cornerstone for downtown revitalization. In 2015, we were tasked with revitalizing said hotel – The Yorktowne – to once again be a cornerstone.

The Kranias family believes it has a winning recipe for a sustainable restaurant concept in the soon-to-open Olive Oil Grille in the Camp Hill Commons, a shopping center under development in East Pennsboro Township.