Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁Five years ago, Covid kept us home while restaurants and other food businesses looked for ways to stay open.
From cookies, to cooking classes to cooked meals, owners had to be creative about what their businesses were, could do, and could be.
Grateful to the following for talking to me about that headspinning journey:
Lou at Sweet Lou's
Fran at Frannie's
Jody and Kirstie at The Culinary Studio
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/jasmine-mangalaseril-covid-19-pandemic-look-back-five-years-later-1.7489702
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From cookies, to cooking classes to cooked meals, owners had to be creative about what their businesses were, could do, and could be.
Grateful to the following for talking to me about that headspinning journey:
Lou at Sweet Lou's
Fran at Frannie's
Jody and Kirstie at The Culinary Studio
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/jasmine-mangalaseril-covid-19-pandemic-look-back-five-years-later-1.7489702
#Canada #FoodWriting #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #GuelphFoodies #Waterloofoodies #kitchenerfoodies #CambridgeFoodies #KitchenerWaterlooFoodies #kweats #CanadianFood #C19 #Restaurants #BuyLocal #ExploreWaterlooRegion #CBC #InstaFood
5 years later: Food columnist Jasmine Mangalaseril on how local food businesses survived pandemic lockdowns | CBC News
Five years ago, the province issued a stay-at-home order to limit the spread of COVID-19. The word pivot was used a lot in the early days of the pandemic. For restaurants, it marked the start of rethinking what it would take to weather the storm and stay afloat.