Toronto just became the first city outside Asia where you can rent your coffee cup
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Toronto is among the first cities to get a rentable coffee cup program that reuses cups in much the same way you d use disposable ones and Zero waste grocery store and cafe bare marketsays the program is already solving issues they ve had with their own reusable cup system.
According to operations manager Ryan O Shaughnessy, people would borrow mugs and not return them, or return them somewhere else, meaning bare market would have to order more cups, counter to their low waste mission.
Like her fellow restaurateurs, Dawn Chapman the owner of adorable east-end café and restaurant Lazy Daisy’s has pulled many a pandemic-pivot to adapt to the circumstances: she streamlined the café’s floor plan and menu; created an online pantry selling products sourced from the Toronto Food Terminal, and even used her own car to make deliveries. Chapman also endeavoured to help her neighbourhood by adding a ‘donations’ option on the café’s website, where customers could select groceries to be donated directly to a local food bank. “I felt good working side by side with my son to fill up the trunk of our car and deliver those donations. Everyone rallied together and the cafe pulled through that first phase of lockdown.”
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BEVERLY HILLS Beverly Hills started #OpenBH, which is “the City’s process for allowing businesses to temporarily expand their services to adjacent areas such as parking lots and the public right of way (sidewalks) through a Special Event Permit. Businesses that are currently able to use #OpenBH to expand services outside include restaurants, gyms, salons, faith based organizations, and retail shops.”
On January 25, Los Angeles County allowed outdoor dining by the end of the week. Hair and nail salons will also be opened with limited capacity. All facilities must follow COVID regulations such as social distancing, signage, face coverings, capacity limitations, sanitization, etc.