NEWPORT,
R.I., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 1899, LLC
(now doing business as The Heritage Restaurant Group) is pleased to
announce that at tonight's Newport City Council meeting, 1899 was
awarded the concessions contract for the 2024 summer season at
Easton's Beach. 1899 is a
robust, multifaceted restaurant and hospitality company currently
overseeing and supporting three brick-and-mortar restaurants in the
City of Newport, a fleet of mobile
food trucks and mobile food carts, and a state-of-the-art mobile
food kitchen.
Since beginning operations in 2017, 1899 has grown exponentially
with an average of 65 year-round employees, which swells to more
than 200 employees during the summer season. All of 1899's
employees, both seasonal and year-round, live in the greater
Newport County area.
"When it was made public over two years ago that the
City of Newport was looking for
solutions to the structural issues of the Easton's Beach pavilions, 1899 and its
partners reached out to the City to offer assistance in raising
private funds to repair, remediate and save the existing
structures. However, after further city-mandated feasibility
studies, the City concluded that a majority of the beach structures
and amenities would need to be demolished and replaced, including
those providing concessions. Like the rest of the
Newport community, we knew what an
impact the loss of these buildings and amenities would have on the
City's residents and summer visitors. We pivoted to looking
to bring to bear all of 1899's resources to provide a bid that not
only offered a variety of concession options to beachgoers, but
also shared a greater portion of the revenue generated by the
mobile food truck fleet with the City than other bidders. In
addition, 1899 will provide additional benches, tables and other
accommodations to visitors at no cost to the City.
This is not solely a business venture, but a reflection of our
Company's core values, to invest in our local Aquidneck Island
community. Newport is where
we and our employees live year-round, where our children and
grandchildren live and attend school, and its future health and
well-being are paramount to our success. As we have done in
the past and will continue to do, we look for any opportunity to
take part in public-private partnerships, like we have done with
the City of Newport, and many
local charities, including, but not limited to, the Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Community
Center, the Edward King House Senior Center, the Boys and Girls
Club of Newport County, Newport
Out, Friends of Newport Skatepark, Newport Hospital, and Bike
Newport." Said an 1899 representative.
The diverse 1899 hospitality platform is agile in its abilities,
servicing public and private events of all types and sizes and
working with a myriad of organizations including the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island, the State of
Rhode Island Division of Parks and Recreation, the International
Tennis Hall of Fame, the Newport Festivals Foundation, 12 Metre
Yacht Club Newport Station, Salve Regina
University, the Newport Art Museum, St. Michael's Country
Day School, Newport Hospital, Gold Medal Bakery and The Ocean
Race.
In 2023, 1899 served as the concessioner and caterer of The
Newport Stopover of The Ocean Race, one of the State's most
important events. Through this endeavor, 1899 gained
unmatched experience and expertise in operating sustainably and now
employs these environmentally sensitive standards across its
restaurant, catering and mobile food truck divisions. In
addition to The Ocean Race, in 2023 1899 organized a total of 729
stops for the mobile food trucks and catering kitchen at events in
Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, Jamestown, North
Kingstown, East Greenwich,
Bristol, Providence and East
Providence, Rhode Island, Fall
River, Massachusetts and Woodstock, Connecticut, to name a few.
As residents of Newport, 1899
its partners and employees recognize that Easton's Beach and the Cliff Walk are two of
the City's most prized assets and showpieces. In order to
maintain and elevate the visitor's Newport experience, 1899 is committed to
building a broad range of food offerings and creating a culinary
destination at Easton's
Beach. To achieve this, it is 1899's sincere desire to work
with other local food truck vendors to augment the food offerings
to include sweet and savory items not on 1899 menus, provided that
these operators maintain and comply with the standards required and
expected by the City of Newport.
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