Hospitality

The former home of Hopedale’s Green Mountain Chocolate Co., which closed in June, was sold for $1.7 million to a corporation registered to Uxbridge cannabis entrepreneurs Timothy Phillips and Kevin MacConnell, according to the Worcester County Registry of Deeds.

Bud’s Goods & Provisions, a cannabis company based in Worcester, was named the Best New England Cannabis Company 2021 at the New England Cannabis Convention.

Old Sturbridge Village announced on Monday it has named Jasmin Rivas to fill a new position at the living museum: director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

After craft brewers in Massachusetts scored a major victory in January when the Legislature finally gave them more freedom to decide who distributes their product, brew pub owners are back asking Beacon Hill for a little more flexibility to fulfill small orders for their beers without the help of a middle man.

Inequalities in the industry persist, and large multistate operators continue to dominate the cannabis market, even in the face of several Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission programs designed to give certain groups of people a leg up in entering the industry.

San Francisco-based online restaurant reservation provider OpenTable selected Stone's Public House in Ashland as part of its 100 Best Neighborhood Gems in America for 2021 with outdoor dining, according to a Thursday press release.

Joining a heated political fight that could decide pay and benefits for more than 200,000 gig economy workers, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday warned that a proposed ballot question would harm scores of workers beyond the app-based drivers at its center.

Cresco Labs, a publicly traded Chicago-based cannabis company operating in multiple states with $476 million in annual revenue, announced on Friday it had completed an acquisition of Cultivate.

The Corner Lunch Diner on the corner of Lamartine and Lafayette Streets in Worcester will have a new owner, after it was sold for $250,000 to Joshua Plahm, the former owner of Boston-based Joshua’s Deli.

La Casa Del Mofongo, a Puerto Rican restaurant on the corner of Main Street and May Street in Worcester, announced in a Facebook post it was closing on Aug. 7, after reopening in June from a prolonged closure.