Restaurants

Since 2019, Ethnosh Dayton has been highlighting the region's immigrant-owned restaurants through monthly meetups.

After a boom in business late last year, Kèkèt Bongou in Springfield has been seeing less of a profit from customers visiting the restaurant on Sunset Avenue.

The historic Silos in Dayton currently have a food hall and bar. As the business develops, its founders have plans for expansion.

The Lumberton General Store is celebrating its first anniversary this weekend, but the building it’s in has a long history. It’s been a restaurant and meeting place in Clinton County for decades.

The Miami Valley Restaurant Association says staffing shortages and inflation are their top concerns as the businesses still grapple with the fallout from the pandemic.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a record 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September. That’s got business owners racing to hire new workers, especially with the holiday shopping season already here.

The owners say it's a challenge to keep up with the rising cost of food, supplies and staff these days

Mary Kay Smith runs the Winds Cafe and Winds Wine Cellar in Yellow Springs. For several years now, she has bought the coffee she serves from Audria Maki, who runs Reza’s in Dayton. Smith has been a mentor to Maki, and the two have helped each other get through the pandemic, both as professionals and parents.

In this edition of Bouncing Back – Dayton Small Businesses Survive the Pandemic, we hear from Elizabeth Wiley, known as Wiley, and Liz Valenti, two of three chef-owners from Meadowlark Restaurant and Wheatpenny Oven and Bar.

Ohio’s restaurants and bars say Congress needs to get to work immediately to give them more federal dollars to offset the losses associated with the pandemic.

More than a half a million people work in Ohio’s bar and restaurant industry, which is pushing back on an announcement from Gov. Mike DeWine in his statewide address Wednesday that he would consider shutting down those establishments next week if the state’s COVID-19 numbers don’t improve.

Restaurant owners, workers and their supporters gathered Thursday night in Beavercreek to protest the COVID-related restrictions placed on their businesses.