Traveling breakfast links local business community

By Pete Fontaine
Posted 3/23/17

The Bridge at Cherry Hill showed its hospitality like never before last Friday morning in Johnston. While the premier assisted living community is known for its dedication to ensuring a fulfilling retirement for senior citizens,

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Traveling breakfast links local business community

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The Bridge at Cherry Hill showed its hospitality like never before last Friday morning in Johnston.

While the premier assisted living community is known for its dedication to ensuring a fulfilling retirement for senior citizens, Executive Director Maryann Grace and Marketing-Sales Director Jennifer Burns played host to Uncle Jay’s Traveling Network Breakfast.

For 90 minutes, people from Rhode Island’s business community enjoyed Chef Martin Carter’s fare while talking shop inside The Bridge’s spacious parlor.

“This is business networking at its best,” said Bob Countie, a real estate broker from RI Real Estate in East Greenwich, while chatting with Burns, Susan Lataille and Jay White.

It was White, in fact, that brought his noted traveling breakfast network to The Bridge – and Johnston – for the first time in his organization’s 12-year history.

White, who lives in South Kingstown and is the senior account executive for Proforma Shoreline Graphics, explained how his event was once called Last Friday Coffee and held at Best Buy in Warwick.

“This lasted for a year,” White said, adding “and after that Best Buy wasn’t going to do it anymore, I decided to continue it as a way to promote other local businesses.”

He also explained that he has had coffee hours all over Rhode Island – from Cumberland to Westerly and even in nearby Massachusetts – and that people who attend are mainly small business owners, entrepreneurs, salespeople and others who are interested in building their networks.

“We generally meet on Fridays,” White said. “But occasionally we meet other days, mostly to accommodate the schedule for the company that is hosting the event. We also have two locations, The Poliquin Group in East Greenwich and The Hive in North Kingstown that we alternate on the last Friday of the month.”

During last Friday’s event, White held a multi-prize raffle with gifts that were donated by other business owners.

More importantly, as Burns later noted: “This (Uncle Jay’s Traveling Network Breakfast) affords everyone to give a brief description as well as promote their respective businesses.”

Those who’d like more information about Uncle Jay’s Traveling Breakfast Network should call White at (401) 265-537 or via email jay.white@proforma.com.

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