08-19-2025, 10:19 AM
When my son worked at Shopify in Ottawa, he and his coworkers often went out together after work. Not being from Ottawa, these were his new found friends. He mentioned that the restaurants and bars that they frequented after work were often busy. With so many downtown tech workers receiving lunch brought in, and city workers allowed to leave once they completed their required work hours. Local Kitchener restaurants downtown at that time started to decline.