Restaurants Canada

Ottawa craft breweries brace for Canada’s biggest alcohol tax jump in 40 years

Canada’s restaurant industry is bracing for the biggest jump in the country’s alcohol excise duty in more than 40 years, spurring warnings the tax hike

Ottawa’s first automated restaurant provides answers to industry’s woes

Ottawa, Techopia

One local restaurateur is stepping out of the pandemic and into the future with a new restaurant concept that he believes will solve some of

Forget toilet paper, lettuce is suddenly the latest hot commodity

Ottawa

With the cost of a simple head of lettuce spiking, restaurants are scrambling to remove or replace the leafy greens in their menus.

Jordan Pizzuti presents three fine dining locations to impress your next big client. (File photo)

Restaurants hope for holiday boom, but looming recession causes concern

Ottawa

Some restaurants and bars are starting to book holiday parties, but it remains to be seen whether bookings will return to pre-pandemic levels, expert says.

‘Playing the long game’: Ottawa restaurants adjust business models to grapple with labour shortage, inflation

Ottawa

Restaurants in Canada are raising prices, shrinking menus and reducing hours in a bid to survive inflation and labour shortages, a new report says, and

Some single use plastics will be banned over the next 18 months

Canada & World

The federal government is banning companies from importing or making plastic bags and takeout containers by the end of this year, from selling them by

‘We just don’t have enough workers:’ Restaurants rocked by labour shortage, inflation

Canada & World

Restaurants across the country are reducing hours and condensing menus as persistent staff shortages and spiking costs threaten to derail the industry’s comeback from crushing