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Zweigle’s, Rochester’s homegrown meat manufacturer, plans to build a 29,000 square-foot expansion and create 33 new job after gaining state support of about $1 million in tax breaks and outright grants.  The expansion, due to be completed in late 2022, ...

Tagged with: empire state development Julie Camardo Kathy Hochul Meat Robert Duffy Zweigle's

McDonald’s restaurant owners and Rochester City Mayor Lovely A. Warren announced on Thursday morning two new recruitment tools that may help the restaurants hire about 230 new employees this fall. McDonald’s is expanding its Archways to Opportunities program that supports ...

Tagged with: aarp Archways to Opportunity Glen Jeter hiring Louis Buono Mayor Lovely A. Warren McDonald's Susan Garrett

The day Red Jacket Orchards turned on the juice production line at its new plant in 2010, Brian Nicholson had a realization. What began as a fruit farm and roadside produce stand two generations earlier had already expanded to shipping ...

Tagged with: Apple Brian Nicholson Joe Nicholson John Engels juice Mark Nicholson Red Jacket Orchards

Eighteen finalists, including three from the Rochester area, have been selected in the first round of the state’s Grow-NY food and agriculture innovation competition. Competitors must present their business plans for consideration in a competition to win a top prize ...

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At least 17 eateries in the Honeoye Falls-Lima district are working to help raise money for educational experiences by participating in the first HFL Restaurant Week Sept. 30 to Oct. 6. Each restaurant, bar or other establishment that serves food ...

Tagged with: Chris Hobaica HFL Education Fund HFL Restaurant Week Honeoye Falls Lauri Hofmann Lima Mendon

Apple producers in Wayne County are readying their farm stands, cideries and other apple-oriented businesses for the annual Wayne County Apple Tasting Tour in October. The tour lasts the entire month of October, hosted by 12 Wayne County businesses. Special ...

Tagged with: agriculture Apples Lagoner Farms Orbaker's Fruit Farm tourism Wayne County Youngman Orchard

It’s been a big week in Finger Lakes wine country. Not only was the area named the top wine region in North America for the second year in a row, but two executives of the New York Wine & Grape ...

Tagged with: Carmella Barbagallo finger lakes Finger Lakes Wine Alliance New York Wine & Grape Foundation Paul Brady Sam Filler USAToday

The Inn on the Lake is being reborn as a house. A very big house. The Lake House on Canandaigua, the latest destination venue created by the Sands family, is replacing the former Inn on the Lake. Developers expect the ...

The corner of N. Winton Avenue and Blossom Road will have a grocery store again starting on Thursday. ALDI plans to open its long-awaited store on Thursday at 175 N. Winton Road. The German-based chain of grocery stores had eyed ...

Tagged with: Aaron Sumida ALDI Gates grocery stores Winton Road

An Italian deli and import shop from the west side now has an east side presence. City officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday at Calabresella on Park at Park Avenue and South Goodman Street. The restaurant has been operating ...

Tagged with: Calabresella Calabresella on Park Dominic Mammoliti mayor lovely warren

REDD, the new restaurant in the former Restaurant 2 Vine space, is scheduled to open on Aug. 16. Rochester native Richard Reddington, who came to national acclaim with his restaurants in the Napa Valley, is the Michelin-star-winning chef leading the ...

Tagged with: Dennis Wilmot Michelin Redd Restaurant 2 Vine restaurants Richard Reddington

Wagner Vineyards, located the east side of Seneca Lake, was named Winery of the Year at the annual New York Wine Classic held in Watkins Glenn Monday through Wednesday. The prize comes as the winery is celebrating its 40th anniversary. ...

Tagged with: Andrew Cuomo Johnson Estate Winery New York Wine & Grape Foundation New York Wine Classic Sam Filler Six Mile Creek Winery Wagner Vineyards

A well-known Greece landmark that has been nothing but a vacant building and parking lot for six years is again on the market. The former Crescent Beach Restaurant, which hugs the Lake Ontario shoreline on Edgemere Drive, has been listed ...

In April, Perry’s Ice Cream released a line of oat-milk-based frozen desserts that are dairy-free. In June they started sending out frozen yogurt laced with vegetable purees. This week craft ice-cream maker Eat Me Ice Cream was blending locally grown black currants into a ...

Tagged with: agriculture Amber Odner Andrew Novakovic Catelyn Augustine Chobani Cornell University dairy Eat Me Ice Cream food processing Gayle Perry Denning ice cream non-dairy Perry's Ice Cream Robert Denning wegmans

The inaugural Grow-NY agricultural business competition has attracted nearly 200 applications hoping to win start-up money to launch a venture in the Finger Lakes region. The applicants are competing to be among the 20 finalists who will have a chance ...

Tagged with: agriculture Andrew Cuomo business competition Cornell University finger lakes Grow-NY Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit Tom Schryver