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Acquiring Food During a Pandemic
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Yesterday, Andrew Coppolino had an interesting article on the local CBC site.
  
Restaurants pivot to selling groceries during COVID shutdown

He points out that a growing number of restaurants in the Region are starting to sell groceries, vegetables and almost anything else to stay in business.  He mentions Ambrosia Corner Bakery,  Little Mushroom Catering, Café Pyrus, Cambridge Restaurant, Sugo on Surrey in Guelph and many others.

Selling groceries at a restaurant is something new to these establishments but many so called ‘ethenic’ restaurants have been doing this since they opened.  I’ve been to several Latino/Mexican restaurants and most of them sell groceries from ‘back home.’  Many good restaurants have always sold their signature sauce, dips, etc. but this is different.  I’ve even seen groceries in non-ethnic restaurants too.  Check out Stoyles Food Market in Galt.  I know it mainly for its wonderful, fresh, Fish and Chips.  Most people go there to eat Fish and Chips or for takeout.  But they do have all kinds of groceries from Newfoundland lining one side of the place.  

Restaurants selling groceries is the flip side of grocery stores, especially large ones, selling ready-to-eat foods.  In this pandemic, restaurants really can’t allow the large grocery stores to become little restaurants.  For them this convergence is not ideal.

Shopping for food.

Over the last week or so we’ve ventured out to get some groceries.  Most grocery stores were doing their part in sanitizing and social distancing.  Some were better than others.

  • Real Canadian SuperStore met all the requirements for safety.
  • Valu-Mart, in the Frederick Mall, where I do most of my groceries (because it’s close), met all the requirements.
  • Italo Foods on River Road had almost no visible signs of social distancing.  I was very surprised to see that the olive bar was still self-serve.  So were the breads and buns.
  • Euro Food on Highland had social distancing markers but the store always seems to have too many customers at one time.  At least the self-serve breads, buns and Pączki was not available the last time I was there.
  • T&T was the best place for social distancing and safety.  They took my temperature before they allowed me in.  That was a first for me!  They also sprayed sanitizer on my hand.  All the shopping carts were disinfected.  Hot take-out food was available but it was not self-serve.  Everything was packaged.  They get an A+ from me.
Since I enjoy cooking we haven’t ordered much take-out or delivery since the lock-down started.  

  • We ordered some pick-up from Mei King on Margaret Avenue.  Very routine.
  • We ordered pick-up from Arabesque on Victoria Street.  We had to call the order in and when we got there they brought the food to the car.
  • We got some cooking sauces and soups from Classic Indian on Wissler Road in Waterloo.   The restaurant is closed but if you call ahead they will make what you want and you can pick it up at an arranged time.
  • We ordered a pie from Sweet and Savoury Pie Company on Bridge Street.  We had to call about three days in advance to order.  Then you have a 15 minute window to pick it up.  
  • We ordered a “No Contact Delivery” pizza from Papa John’s.  We were just curious about the pizza and the delivery.  Nothing special about either.  

I would be interested to read about your experiences getting food at this time.
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Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 04-26-2020, 03:23 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 04-26-2020, 04:03 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by clasher - 04-26-2020, 09:34 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by KevinL - 04-26-2020, 09:50 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 04-27-2020, 06:31 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 04-27-2020, 09:51 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by clasher - 04-27-2020, 05:59 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 04-30-2020, 10:28 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 04-30-2020, 02:23 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 04-30-2020, 07:17 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by clasher - 04-30-2020, 09:47 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 05-13-2020, 03:41 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by plam - 05-13-2020, 06:03 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 05-14-2020, 09:37 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 05-14-2020, 07:36 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 05-14-2020, 09:10 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by clasher - 05-14-2020, 11:54 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by plam - 05-17-2020, 12:11 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 05-17-2020, 09:22 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by clasher - 05-17-2020, 11:51 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by Coke6pk - 05-19-2020, 02:43 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 05-17-2020, 09:23 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 05-21-2020, 09:11 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by Acitta - 05-21-2020, 09:09 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by plam - 05-22-2020, 06:29 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 05-25-2020, 01:51 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by clasher - 05-25-2020, 09:17 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by embe - 05-26-2020, 10:47 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by jgsz - 06-04-2020, 11:20 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by tomh009 - 06-04-2020, 01:54 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by GtwoK - 06-08-2020, 03:58 PM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by bgb_ca - 07-09-2020, 11:55 AM
RE: Acquiring Food During a Pandemic - by KevinL - 07-09-2020, 03:51 PM

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