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MENU Magazine

MENU continues its legacy of storytelling and industry perspectives in a new digital home. Connecting compelling stories with Restaurants Canada's research, advocacy and expertise, MENU explores the people, ideas and issues defining Canadian foodservice.



NEW GAME, NEW RULES: THE CONTEMPORARY BAR OWNER’S PLAYBOOK – According to Christina Veira & Evelyn Chick

Canada’s bar and beverage industry has forked. Arguably more than any other hospitality format, bars had to reinvent…

Introducing Trinity Market: The Ultimate Collab

Chef, author, lifelong seafood fan and restaurant rethinker Matt Dean Pettit is the kind of person who seems…

Black in the Kitchen: Resilience Meets Passion at Sasilka Shallangwa’s SK Cookks

The Re-Seasoning Coalition is dedicated to increasing the representation of Black Canadians in foodservice through research, programming and…

Supper Central x Groupex

SUPPER CENTRAL Operator: Louise & Palmer NowakGroupex member since: 2022Winnipeg, Manitoba Independently owned and operated by a mother-daughter…

The Journey Within

Inez Cook is a fascinating person and a somewhat reluctant leader. Born in Bella Coola, BC as a…

CHEF EVA CHIN SERVES IT RAW

American ex-pat Chef Eva Chin is a rising star in the Canadian culinary scene. Her culinary style has…

Soup Sisters: A “hug in a bowl” for foodservice

Soup Sisters is a grassroots superhero story that spawned a Canadian movement. In 2009, Sharon Hapton was an…

In Conversation with Julie Denton, Chief People Officer, Recipe Unlimited Corporation & Restaurants Canada Board Member

RECIPE UNLIMITED CORP. has over 1,200 corporate, franchise and joint venture operations across five countries and has been…

All Eyes on the Prize – Rob Rainford

By Elle Asiedu, The Re-seasoning Coalition You might know Chef Rob Rainford from the millennium Food Network hit…

Black in the Kitchen: Chef Philman George

By Elle Asiedu, The Re-seasoning Coalition A long-time restaurant chef and the first Black corporate chef at a…