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The Heritage Restaurant Group is acquiring the Newport seafood restaurant Scales & Shells.

The restaurant will continue its current operations through the end of the year.

The current management team and staff will join the Heritage Restaurant Group after the purchase closes.

Scales & Shells, the Newport seafood restaurant at 527/537 Thames St., will be the newest acquisition by the Heritage Restaurant Group . The closing for the restaurant will be within 90 days. The restaurant will close for renovations in January.

The restaurant was founded 38 years ago by Debra and Andy Ackerman. She was the chef who drew immediate acclaim for her seafood dishes.

"Newport can lay claim to one of the best informal seafood restaurants in the region," reported The Providence Jo

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