A beautiful mid-April afternoon in Banff would typically see bustling street-front businesses and packed restaurants.
But on this day, the town remained quiet.
Stephane Prevost sat outside one of his two Caribou Street restaurants in the Alberta tourism hotspot while inside a skeleton back-end staff filled a rare takeout order.
On April 6, the Alberta government announced another round of restrictions on businesses and public life amid a third wave of COVID-19 infections.
âWe didnât do very well yesterday; we sold maybe a dozen orders. Obviously, that doesnât cut it, to not even break even,â said Prevost, chef and managing partner at the Block Kitchen + Bar and Shoku Izakaya restaurants in Banff.