ROCK FALLS – Diners no longer need to fear a potato soup famine at the former Rock Falls Hotel: The soup will be offered every day at the new Days Inn.

Dustin Hollenbach is the new general manager of the hotel at 2105 First Ave., which changed management Jan. 1. Associated Hotels managed it since October 2010. It still is owned by American Enterprise Bank of Chicago.

Hollenbach, originally from Pennsylvania, has lived in the Sauk Valley area for 14 years. Many of the hotel’s other managers have been from Chicago, he said, and weren’t familiar with the area.