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Restaurant Program Offers Affordable Dining Option

People 60/+ years old can get dine out vouchers from East Bay Community Action Program's Restaurant Program, good at IHOP & Newport Creamery

East Bay Community Action Program has Restaurant Program dining vouchers available for purchase through its Ocean State Senior Dining Program. The Restaurant Program offers vouchers to the IHOP Restaurant located at 159 West Main Road, Middletown, Rhode Island and three Newport Creamery Restaurants, located at 296 County Road, Barrington, Rhode Island, 181 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island and 208 West Main Road, Middletown, Rhode Island.

The EBCAP Restaurant Program is open to individuals 60 years of age or older. Vouchers for the program, which must be obtained prior to dining, are available at the Barrington Café, 281 County Rd. (telephone number 401-247-1926), the Bristol Café, 1020 Hope Street (telephone number 401- 253-8458), the Portsmouth Café, 110 Bristol Ferry Rd (telephone number 401- 683-4106), the East Providence Café, 610 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, RI (telephone number 401-435-7800, ext. 2), the Warren Café, 20 Libby Lane, Warren, RI (telephone number 401-247-1930) or at East Bay Community Action Program, 100 Bullocks Point Avenue, East Providence, RI (telephone number 401-437-1000 ext. 121).

A donation of $5.00 is suggested. Vouchers at IHOP are redeemable between 7am – 10:30am and 4:30pm-8:00pm, 7 days a week; vouchers at Newport Creamery are redeemable Monday – Friday from 7 am – 11 am and from 4 pm- 8 pm. Diners can select from a limited menu of nutritionally balanced entrees at both sites. All vouchers must be used during their month of purchase.

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This program is funded in part by the United States Administration on Aging and state funds through the RI Office of Healthy Aging.

East Bay Community Action Program is a private, non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation that provides a wide array of health and human services to the residents of Rhode Island’s East Bay, including the municipalities of East Providence, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, Little Compton, Tiverton, Portsmouth, Middletown, Newport, and Jamestown. For more information regarding services and to learn how you too can support the CAP which supports the East Bay Community, please visit ebcap.org.

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