Two New Downtown Springdale Spots & Start of 2026- Bert Jones & Ben Elstein

About this episode

The episode discusses two new restaurant openings in downtown Springdale and reflects on the restaurant business's performance in 2025 and the start of 2026.

We get details on two new spots coming to downtown Springdale from those directly involved, as we talk to Gaskin’s on Emma’s Bert Jones about Gaskin’s Trattoria and (the soon-to-be) Emma’s Market & Bottle Shop’s Ben Elstein. We also talk about the restaurant business- how 2025 went, and how 2026 has started. That’s on this episode of Bien the Know! Please subscribe and tell a friend!

People in this episode

Host: John Engleman

Guests: Bert Jones, Ben Elstein

Topics covered

• restaurant business
• new openings
• Springdale
• 2025 recap
• 2026 preview

Keywords

• Springdale
• restaurant openings
• Gaskin’s Trattoria
• Emma’s Market & Bottle Shop
• 2025
• 2026
• Bert Jones
• Ben Elstein

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gaskin’s on Emma, Gaskin’s Trattoria, Emma’s Market & Bottle Shop

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