MAKE FOOD YOUR BUSINESS
About Hope & Main
About Hope & Main
Hope & Main is a non-profit organization created to help food-based entrepreneurs produce and sell their products.
We have spent nearly three years visiting commercial kitchens, talking to chefs, farmers and fisherman about their needs for bringing their food to the market.
Using their input, we have designed kitchens for a variety of food producers, including a processing kitchen, gluten-free/vegan kitchen and a large culinary kitchen for cooking teams.
Hope & Main is a non-profit organization created to help food-based entrepreneurs produce and sell their products.
We have spent nearly three years visiting commercial kitchens, talking to chefs, farmers and fisherman about their needs for bringing their food to the market.
Using their input, we have designed kitchens for a variety of food producers, including a processing kitchen, gluten-free/vegan kitchen and a large culinary kitchen for cooking teams.
Hope & Main Board of Directors
Chair and President: Lisa Raiola, MPH, Founder and Executive Director, Hope & Main
Vice Chair: Chef Joe Simone, Proprietor, The Sunnyside Restaurant, Warren, RI
Treasurer: Brandt Heckert, Owner, Pastiche Fine Desserts, Providence, RI
Secretary: Betsy Santarlasci, former President of FRESHFARM Markets, Washington DC
Waterman Brown, President, Globe Aero-Marine, Ltd., Newport, RI
Todd Blount, President and Co-Owner, Blount Fine Foods, Fall River, MA and Warren, RI
Susan Marshall, Ed.D., Department Chair, Foodservice Academic Studies, Johnson and Wales University, Providence, RI
W. Henry Blade, Planning and Programming Specialist/RI EHS-Net (Environmental Health Specialist Network) at State of Rhode Island, Office of Food Protection, RI Department of Health
Linda Goldstein, Principal Consultant at Blade Consulting (Sensory, Usability, Consumer Insights), consumer product testing with a focus on food/beverage industry, Barrington, RI
Robert Bornstein, Principal, Hospitality Procurement Services, Stoughton, MA
Eric Busch, Rustpoint Advisory, LLC, Warwick, RI
Greg Spiess, AIA, Principal, Architecture & Urban Design, Barrington, RI
Sara Strachan II, Principal, SRS Consulting for Hospitality, Tourism and Real Estate, Providence, RI
Caroline Wells, Town of Warren, Director of Planning & Community Development, Warren, RI
Chair and President: Lisa Raiola, MPH, Founder and Executive Director, Hope & Main
Vice Chair: Chef Joe Simone, Proprietor, The Sunnyside Restaurant, Warren, RI
Treasurer: Brandt Heckert, Owner, Pastiche Fine Desserts, Providence, RI
Secretary: Betsy Santarlasci, former President of FRESHFARM Markets, Washington DC
Waterman Brown, President, Globe Aero-Marine, Ltd., Newport, RI
Todd Blount, President and Co-Owner, Blount Fine Foods, Fall River, MA and Warren, RI
Susan Marshall, Ed.D., Department Chair, Foodservice Academic Studies, Johnson and Wales University, Providence, RI
W. Henry Blade, Planning and Programming Specialist/RI EHS-Net (Environmental Health Specialist Network) at State of Rhode Island, Office of Food Protection, RI Department of Health
Linda Goldstein, Principal Consultant at Blade Consulting (Sensory, Usability, Consumer Insights), consumer product testing with a focus on food/beverage industry, Barrington, RI
Robert Bornstein, Principal, Hospitality Procurement Services, Stoughton, MA
Eric Busch, Rustpoint Advisory, LLC, Warwick, RI
Greg Spiess, AIA, Principal, Architecture & Urban Design, Barrington, RI
Sara Strachan II, Principal, SRS Consulting for Hospitality, Tourism and Real Estate, Providence, RI
Caroline Wells, Town of Warren, Director of Planning & Community Development, Warren, RI
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