By: Mishal Omar and Ellen Smith, Trend Hunter The significant disruption that the restaurant industry has experienced this year has brought on rapid changes that were once thought to be short-term, but are...
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The following is part one of a two-part series about the state of Canada’s foodservice industry. In part one, we take a look back at the seismic transformation of the foodservice landscape in...
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From resources to help you reinvent and remarket your business, to tech tools that seamlessly integrate into your POS system to help you track orders, to innovative building materials that allow you to...
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Photo by Eileen Cho In March I spent a week interviewing people in the restaurant industry on the effects of that very first lockdown across Canada. As 2020 exits I want to take...
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As 2020 comes to a close, the team at Restaurants Canada is looking forward to the new year. Frontline health care workers and long-term care residents receiving the COVID-19 vaccination represent a light...
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It’s a bit of an understatement to say that this year has been extremely tough for everyone. Our industry is continually forced to pivoti, and operators are still working to implement operational changes...
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We don’t need to tell you that over 10,000 restaurants across Canada have already permanently closed due to the impacts of COVID-19. We don’t need to tell you that at the height of...
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada in March, restaurant owners and farmers alike had to quickly adjust to meet the changing needs of Canadian consumers. Many restaurants had to close or pivot strictly...
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Fresh spearheaded vegan and vegetarian cuisine before it was an Insta-worthy millennial trend. This plant-powered frontrunner has a twenty-year history in the Toronto restaurant scene. The owners, Barry Alper, Ruth Tal and Jennifer...
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In the pre-COVID world, I used to ask my restaurant judges for Canada’s 100 Best to vote on restaurant quality based on four considerations: the quality of the cooking, wine list, décor and...
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