**FILE** Shawn Townsend is the president and CEO of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. (WI photo)
**FILE** Shawn Townsend is the president and CEO of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. (WI photo)

The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) will hold its annual meeting on April 17 at the Watergate Hotel in Northwest, with Ryan Zimmerman, a partner in Long Shot Hospitality and a key member of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals, as the featured speaker.

โ€œMr. National excelled both on the field, as part of a championship team, and off the field, as part of a leading regional hospitality group,โ€ said Shawn Townsend, president and CEO of RAMW. โ€œWe are thrilled to welcome him to share his insights at this yearโ€™s Annual Meeting.โ€

RAMW is the regional trade association representing restaurants and the food service industry in the Washington metropolitan area.

Founded in 1920, the association serves to promote and advance the interests of its members which consists of restaurants with legislative and regulatory representation, marketing and small business support, programming, and events.

The meeting agenda includes panels about The Districtโ€™s new Dram Shop law and ABC licensing; the future of streateries; and the new drive to reform Clean Hands laws.

James Wright Jr. is the D.C. political reporter for the Washington Informer Newspaper. He has worked for the Washington AFRO-American Newspaper as a reporter, city editor and freelance writer and The Washington...

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