Good Morning Folks, Well our wonderful weather from yesterday has moved on and we're chilly again today so a good setting to launch our Thrill of the Chill initiative! Attached is an interview that our Board Chair, Albert Stortchak, did earlier this morning on NewsTalk 1010 - they will be promoting the Thrill of the Chill throughout the day. As a reminder, our restaurants with patios have the blankets and the $5 gift certificates and will be giving them out…

Good Morning All, Our Thrill of the Chill campaign has certainly garnered some good attention for our BIA. Please note that I've included Eszter, our social media mgr., in the top send line of this email. We're launching the campaign this Saturday at 2:30pm. Eszter has created a few images - see below - that you can use in your social media to help promote the campaign. We're asking all of our businesses to help - the blankets and gift…

Good Afternoon All, I'm so pleased to announce that we're launching our Thrill of the Chill promotional campaign this Saturday, Oct. 24 at 2:30pm. Special thanks to Councillor Paula Fletcher for agreeing to come out and assist with the launch. The purpose of this campaign is to provide some assistance to our business members. As you know our restaurant members are part of the current restrictions and can only do outdoor patio business and it's getting cold. To draw customers…

Good Afternoon All, Below is a news release from the City regarding some new initiatives being offered by Ritual. This may be of interest to those of you who are doing on-line orders and deliveries - this is not limited to restaurants but is open to all food services and retail. Please take a moment to read through the information below - certain fees are being waived - this may be an opportunity that would fit for some of you.…

Good Afternoon All, This is not the news we wanted to hear - we hoped it wouldn't come to this but.... NEW Restrictions: Effective Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 12:01 a.m., these targeted measures are being implemented in Ottawa, Peel, and Toronto as a result of their higher than average rates of transmission. Measures under a modified Stage 2 include: Reducing limits for all social gatherings and organized public events to a maximum of 10 people indoors and 25 people…

Hi Folks, Several of you had some additional questions about testing and self isolating for staff and taking contact information of customers. I hope that the following information will help: 1. If you are notified that a customer or a staff member has tested positive then your staff that were working either when the customer was in or when the infected staff person was working need to go and get tested. Right now there's a bit of a wait to…