Tag: Mark von Schellwitz
Vancouver City Council Votes to Scrap Single-Use Cup Fee
VANCOUVER — Vancouver City Council has voted to end the city’s 25-cent single-use cup fee after receiving resounding feedback from local businesses, consumers and...
B.C. Passes Canada’s First Delivery-Fee Cap Legislation
VICTORIA — British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to implement a permanent cap on fees charged by food-delivery companies.
The Food Delivery...
Industry Pushes Back on Minimum-Wage Increase in Saskatchewan
SASKATOON — Restaurants Canada and Saskatchewan restaurateurs are pushing back against the Saskatchewan Government’s decision to increase provincial minimum wage from $11.81 to $13.00...
Province Allows Restaurants, Bars to Buy Alcohol at Wholesale Prices
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government has announced it will permanently allow restaurants, bars and tourism operators to buy liquor at wholesale prices.
Restaurants, pubs and...
Alberta Provides More Help for Restaurants
EDMONTON — The Government of Alberta announced a moratorium on evictions last week.
“On behalf of the province’s more than 11,000 restaurants, I want to...
Alberta Restaurants Get Green Light to Resume Business
EDMONTON — Alberta announced Wednesday it would be proceeding with its Phase-1 reopening Thursday, which includes on-premise restaurant dining, for most of the province....
COVID-19 Causing Unprecedented Damage to the Canadian Restaurant Industry
TORONTO
— The COVID-19 pandemic has sent shockwaves across the planet, affecting every industry, none more than the
foodservice industry.
Restaurants
Canada released a survey recently detailing...
The Western Canadian Food Scene is Full of Prairie Pride
Sports dynasties, oil fields and wide-open spaces where beef cattle roam and wheat yellows under a cerulean sky — Western Canada has all of...
Business Groups Respond to B.C.’s Minimum Wage Increase
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government’s announcement to increase minimum wage and liquor server wage annually based on the Consumer Price Index is being met...
B.C. Predicted To Boast Fastest-growing Restaurant Sales in 2014
VANCOUVER — Toronto-based Restaurants Canada predicts that the B.C. foodservice industry will lead the country in sales with a 7.5-per-cent increase to $8.9 billion...
