PODCAST: Spacing Radio 053, Food and Community
The pandemic has been an existential threat to restaurants, cafés, and bars in cities across Canada. It’s also been a financial blow to many, threatening their food security. In this episode, we look at the impact on the the business, ethics, and community of food in the city.
Wine expert Krysta Oben talks about starting a new business, just as the pandemic struck.
Writer, editor, and CBC Food Guide Suresh Doss talks about COVID’s impact on the many different food-based communities across the GTA.
Toronto Association of BIAs Executive Director John Kiru talks about plans to bring back programs to help restaurants create socially distanced outdoor dining spaces next summer, following the largely successful CaféTO and CurbTO programs last year.
Digital Main Street launches pilot with Deliverect to support Toronto restaurants
Toronto-based Digital Main Street and ventureLAB are launching a new pilot with Belgian-founded startup Deliverect to offer a delivery optimization solution to Toronto restaurants this winter.
“We are confident that Deliverect can make restaurants thrive this winter by managing their online sales in a way that increases sales.”
Through the pilot, Deliverect’s solution will connect UberEats, Doordash, SkipTheDishes, and other delivery companies directly to restaurants’ POS system in order to automate the online order process. Deliverect’s platform aims to alleviate the requirement to have staff maintain multiple tablets for delivery orders, reducing mistakes and wait times for customers.
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Bay Street’s boys’ club has a long history of making nonsensical excuses to exclude women from positions of power.
One infamous incident occurred in 1976, when W. Earle McLaughlin, then chairman and president of Royal Bank of Canada, caused an uproar when he claimed the country’s largest bank couldn’t find a qualified woman to serve on its 48-member board of directors. Never mind that smaller rivals had already pulled off this seemingly impossible feat, including Bank of Montreal, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Mr. McLaughlin insisted his bank came up empty after scouring the entire country for credentialled women.
Calls to cut off big-box non-essential shopping grow
by Shauna Hunt
Last Updated Jan 19, 2021 at 6:05 pm EDT
The Ontario government says it will make an announcement about COVID-19 safety enforcement at big-box stores Wednesday, as the chorus grows louder for the province to limit large stores to only selling essential goods.
“It would assist everybody dealing with this by not encouraging those big line ups out there,” says John Kiru, executive director of the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA).
The association of local business groups is among those ringing the alarm bells over the crush of shoppers heading out for non-essential goods and calling for fairness for smaller retailers.