{"id":10566,"date":"2023-06-14T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:21:37","slug":"ritual-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/ritual-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"RITUAL CAF\u00c9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p><strong>RITUAL CAF\u00c9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2028 Warwick Ave, Warwick, RI 02889 <strong>\u25cf <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ritualcaferi.com\">ritualcaferi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Business owner, Brett Read, is no stranger to entrepreneurial life. He is a real estate broker, property manager, and now, cafe owner. The vision for Ritual Cafe was inspired by Brett\u2019s desire to experience a place where you could get excellent coffee and a delicious breakfast sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>Determined in his search for the perfect location in central RI, Brett contacted the RISBDC for assistance. For support, he was connected with Regional Director Amit Basnet and Restaurant &amp; Hospitality Business Advisor Maggie Longo. Working with them helped Brett determine start-up costs and develop a menu with cost projections. Through this partnership, Brett secured the financing he needed.<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/987\/RITUAL-CAFE-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10566]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10568 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/987\/RITUAL-CAFE-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"238\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Ritual Cafe is a quick-service restaurant serving breakfast and lunch sandwiches, flatbread pizza, baked goods, and a range of locally-sourced, high-quality coffees and lattes. Brett shared, <span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>&#8220;My business wouldn&#8217;t exist without the RISBDC and my consultant, Maggie Longo. She helped me fill all the gaps from ideas to reality and saved me from making mistakes.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RITUAL CAF\u00c9 2028 Warwick Ave, Warwick, RI 02889 \u25cf ritualcaferi.com Business owner, Brett Read, is no stranger to entrepreneurial life. He is a real estate broker, property manager, and now, cafe owner. The vision for Ritual Cafe was inspired by Brett\u2019s desire to experience a place where you could get excellent coffee and a delicious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":10567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10569,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions\/10569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}