Hospitality industry looks forward to sunny days

With apologies to Shakespeare: “And now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by an increase in tax revenues.”

Perhaps it is a bit premature to predict a return to sunny days for the hospitality industry, particularly when the effects of the bad economy have put a wintry chill on profit and growth. But in Northern Colorado, the hospitality industry of 2010 has been stirring under the snow, expanding a little, tweaking here, opening a new restaurant there.

As if to signal a transition from “space for lease” to “open for business,” Ingredient (5,500 square feet spilling onto sidewalk…