Regional Business Roundup: Eats in Seekonk, Attleboro-Based Ice Cream, and Patriots Place Expansion

Eats in Seekonk a History of Food for 60 Years

Eats Restaurant in Seekonk has been a staple in the town for over 30 years, but its history goes back a lot farther than that.“My grandfather owned a New York System in East Providence for like 60 years,” said Lexi Mihailides, whose father currently owns Eats. “He started when he was wicked young, maybe 20 years old when he started at the one in Smith Street. He then bought the one in East Providence. My dad worked there and wanted to open his own place.”

Attleboro-Based Ice Cream Company Expands

An Attleboro-based all natural ice cream company has brought its sweet new flavors to Weymouth.

Batch ice cream, crafted from scratch in Massachusetts using real local ingredients, is now being served at the East Weymouth Stop & Shop. It is one of 150 stores across the state.

All seven-batch ice cream flavors contain a small list of ingredients, like fresh cream, organic evaporated cane juice, and eggs, brought together with hand-crafted caramel and real vanilla beans.

Proposed Patriot Place Expansion Leaves Planning Board Unimpressed

If the Kraft Group want approval for a Patriot Place expansion, they are going to have to do better according to the planning board.

With Kraft Group officials showing an early proposal for an expansion featuring a new hotel, CVS, and quick serve restaurant, the planning board was unimpressed by the site plan, citing a lack of creativity and nothing to connect the south plaza to the north plaza as the reason.

“This just feels a lot more throwaway. It doesn't seem to have the degree of thoughtfulness that is reflected in the north and south marketplace,” Town Planner Sharon Wason said,

According to the site plan, a limited service hotel, a quick serve restaurant, and a CVS would be built in what is currently parking lots six and seven. Both lots are located next to the Renaissance Inn and are only used on game day and other major events drawing at least 50,000 people.

Currently, there are no companies attached to the hotel or the quick serve restaurant.

Stone Street Auto Knows their Customers

Adam Prindall said he’s been around engines for a very long time, and he’s continuing his experience in Walpole still at Stone Street Auto.

“I had just like lawnmowers and dirtbikes when I was a kid and they would break and I’d fix them,” Prindall said.

Prindall said his father started the business in 1995 on South Street and moved to their current location in 2000. He said he was working in the shop in his youth a lot.

“I spent a lot of summer vacations working on South Street,” Prindall said. “I graduated in 2000. After I graduated I did a few other things, landscaping, hardwood floors and electrician, but It’d working at the garage too.”

Prindall said though he likes working with engines, it’s the people that make it really satisfying.

“Some days are really good,” he said. “I enjoy my customers, and they’re the best that I could possibly have. I know 99 percent of everybody that walks through that door. It’s a big part of the place.”