{"id":188953,"date":"2025-04-16T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/?p=188953"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:42:19","slug":"italian-bakery-rosetta-x-best-buddies-set-to-open-in-bethesda-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/2025\/04\/16\/italian-bakery-rosetta-x-best-buddies-set-to-open-in-bethesda-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian bakery Rosetta x Best Buddies set to open in Bethesda, MD later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Business partnering with nonprofit to offer jobs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;188959&#8243; img_size=&#8221;Full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Rosetta x Best Buddies, an Italian bakery that plans to employ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is set to open in downtown Bethesda, MD later this year, according to a press release from the business.<\/p>\n<p>Rosetta x Best Buddies will open in the former space of Pitango Gelato &amp; Coffee at 4901 Fairmont Ave. in Bethesda\u2019s Woodmont Triangle neighborhood. Pitango closed in September after four years at the location. The release did not provide an opening date for the bakery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full article <a href=_-502.html target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosetta x Best Buddies, an Italian bakery that plans to employ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is set to open in downtown Bethesda later this year, according to a press release from the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,819],"tags":[1754,829,89,1678,4715],"class_list":["post-188953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-front-page","tag-best-buddies-integrated-employment","tag-employment","tag-idd","tag-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities","tag-rosetta-bakery-x-best-buddies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Italian bakery Rosetta x Best Buddies set to open in Bethesda, MD later this year - Best Buddies International<\/title>\n<!-- Added by HTTrack --><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /><!-- /Added by HTTrack -->
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