Tag: Statistics Canada
Optimism abounds for beverage-alcohol market in a post-COVID world
Beverage alcohol has proven itself to be one of the most bulletproof consumer goods categories at a time of significant disruption. Despite shifts between...
Restaurants Canada Hosts Breakfast with Champions Event
By Nicole Di Tomasso
TORONTO — Last Wednesday, hospitality industry leaders gathered at the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex for Restaurants Canada’s Breakfast with Champions event...
Operators are scrambling to fill jobs as the industry re-opens
You used to be able to hang out a “Help Wanted” sign and have 50 people line up for the job. Now there are...
Hospitality Market Report
Shrouded in pandemic from tip to tail, 2021 — which nonetheless played host to some remarkable successes for Canada’s restaurant industry — challenges anyone...
Starbucks Canada Invests in Comprehensive Total Wellness for its Employees
TORONTO — Starbucks Canada recently made LifeWorks, a leading digital wellness platform and app, available to all Canadian employees and their family members —...
Feds to Extend the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy Program
OTTAWA — The Federal Government’s emergency wage-subsidy program is being extended beyond June. The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program, which covers 75 per cent of...
Lone Diners Represent a Growing Market Opportunity
One of my first jobs out of university involved extensive travel, by myself. I spent the better part of two years on the road,...
Matters of Pay
When Ontario’s minimum wage jumped 20 per cent to $14 in 2018, restaurateur Erik Jayal went “mining for margins.” As the owner of Toronto...
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...
Nourish Food Marketing Releases New Halal Consumer-Insights Study
TORONTO — Nourish Food Marketing has just completed its fifth-annual Halal-shopper study. The study, which surveyed more than 1,000 principal grocery shoppers, has significant implications for...
