In this guest post, Restaurants Canada President & CEO, Todd Barclay speaks to some of the most recent challenges the foodservice industry is facing and how Restaurants Canada is advocating on behalf of...
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The following is part two of a two-part series about the state of Canada’s foodservice industry. Part one reflected on the changes that occurred in 2020 due to COVID-19 and the lessons learned...
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With lockdown reimposed on my hometown of Toronto, it’s easy to succumb to a swelling sense of economic gloom and general malaise. But then, there is so much refreshingly good news in the...
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In June 2020, when Ben Swirsky, Co-owner of Toronto’s Alchemy Food & Drink, went to renew his restaurant insurance policy, he quickly came to the dark realization that his existing provider was not interested...
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Restaurants across Canada (and let’s be honest, across the world) are still in the throws of pandemic disease, rolling mandatory shutdowns in some areas, and reopening with unprecedented health guidelines and seating limits....
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The use of technology as an important part of a restaurant’s operations has been slowly gaining popularity in the industry over the past few years. According to a recent Restaurants Canada Outlook Survey,...
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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 now being adopted for the foreseeable future. Additional...
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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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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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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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