Metro Vancouver Restaurant News thread - Page 167

NewfBC · #**3321** Posted **Dec 13, 2022, 1:50 AM**

Denny's on SW Marine closing December 26 for redevelopment.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/food-...ver-bc-development-rental-towers-6232874

Ron.

officedweller · #**3322** Posted **Dec 20, 2022, 3:10 AM**

Foodtastic to buy healthy fast food restaurant chain Freshii for $74.4M
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/foodtastic-t...aurant-chain-freshii-for-74-4m-1.1861252

jollyburger · #**3323** Posted **Dec 20, 2022, 5:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Foodtastic to buy healthy fast food restaurant chain Freshii for $74.4M
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/foodtastic-t...aurant-chain-freshii-for-74-4m-1.1861252

It'll be worthless in ten years?

LeftCoaster · #**3324** Posted **Dec 20, 2022, 11:34 PM**

Freshii has been awful for years, seems a natural fit for the owner of Milestones.

WarrenC12 · #**3325** Posted **Dec 21, 2022, 5:54 PM**

Looks like "Loz Takos" on Broadway is papered up. Too bad, I've been there a few times. Decent fast Mexican food. It's a busy area but lots of options for food, they were never super busy.

hollywoodnorth · #**3326** Posted **Jan 7, 2023, 9:13 AM**

Popeyes Park Royal is set to open within 2 weeks I am told. Page now up on the malls site >> https://parkroyal.ca/store/popeyes-coming-soon/

SpongeG · #**3327** Posted **Jan 7, 2023, 10:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Looks like "Loz Takos" on Broadway is papered up. Too bad, I've been there a few times. Decent fast Mexican food. It's a busy area but lots of options for food, they were never super busy.

one of its neighbours is also closing and one of the spaces will be replaced with a Hi-Five fried chicken. According to a daily hive article i saw.

Feathered Friend · #**3328** Posted **Jan 8, 2023, 1:36 AM**

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As some stores struggle to survive the construction of the Broadway Subway, others clearly see a future opportunity. For instance, at Broadway & Willow, both Loz Takos & Bamboo World Kitchen have recently closed, but HiFive Chicken is already set to replace the former.

Meanwhile at Cambie & Broadway, Lumiere Cafe will replace the Blenz in the Crossroads Building. Down the hill Cafe Artigiano has just opened in the old Starbucks at W 8th Ave, Cobs Bread found a home in a new office building & after months of work Seaport City is close to launching.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnIsz6AJu3g/...uDZIOf1nX4Qm_j6W_fHBXuPePP0p43jybl6oEV4o

A few shots I've been meaning to post for a while now.

WarrenC12 · #**3329** Posted **Jan 8, 2023, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

one of its neighbours is also closing and one of the spaces will be replaced with a Hi-Five fried chicken. According to a daily hive article i saw.

Yes Bamboo Kitchen. That place took ages to open and then left quickly. I wonder how much cash they had and how long the delays cost them. Hi Five is replacing Loz Takos I think.

That few blocks is a real revolving door. Donair Dude is set to open close by, the Blenz by London Drugs was replaced by a new coffee shop being renovated now. A Japanese bakery is opening in some of the CoV's old space.

The seafood place finally opened replacing Milestones, and the old Starbucks turned Artigiano is now open.

Edit: Thanks for all the pics!

NewfBC · #**3330** Posted **Jan 8, 2023, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Looks like "Loz Takos" on Broadway is papered up. Too bad, I've been there a few times. Decent fast Mexican food. It's a busy area but lots of options for food, they were never super busy.

It was announced that Hi Five was taking this space almost a year ago..
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hi-five-chicken-expansion-bc

So maybe they were just sticking around until their lease was up...?

I asked them about it at the time on Facebook and never received a reply.

Ron.

WarrenC12 · #**3331** Posted **Jan 8, 2023, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by NewfBC

It was announced that Hi Five was taking this space almost a year ago..
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hi-five-chicken-expansion-bc

So maybe they were just sticking around until their lease was up...?

I asked them about it at the time on Facebook and never received a reply.

Ron.

Wow that's weird. Same franchisee maybe? Loz Takos has only been around a few years itself.

Changing City · #**3332** Posted **Jan 8, 2023, 8:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Wow that's weird. Same franchisee maybe? Loz Takos has only been around a few years itself.

Seems unlikely, but I guess it's possible. It's expensive to pay two start-up fees. Loz Takos are in Coquitlam and Langley. They're trying to get franchise operators, but I think Broadway was also a company store. With Red Burrito and Chipotle not that far away, it's a tough market to succeed in.

Hi Five are also local, with three of their six stores in Burnaby. This will be the second in Vancouver - there's one on Marine Drive. They have five more opening, including Broadway and are also pursuing the franchise model - four of the stores are corporate. They'll be competing with the new Jollibee, and I think there's a chicken place in City Square mall too.

WarrenC12 · #**3333** Posted **Jan 9, 2023, 5:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Seems unlikely, but I guess it's possible. It's expensive to pay two start-up fees. Loz Takos are in Coquitlam and Langley. They're trying to get franchise operators, but I think Broadway was also a company store. With Red Burrito and Chipotle not that far away, it's a tough market to succeed in.

Hi Five are also local, with three of their six stores in Burnaby. This will be the second in Vancouver - there's one on Marine Drive. They have five more opening, including Broadway and are also pursuing the franchise model - four of the stores are corporate. They'll be competing with the new Jollibee, and I think there's a chicken place in City Square mall too.

I went to Loz Takos a few times. It was pretty good. Chipotle is what it is and draws a crowd for sure, but their menu is limited.

Hi Five will have to compete with Jollibee now.

jollyburger · #**3334** Posted **Jan 12, 2023, 9:58 PM**

Heritage Asian Eatery is shutting down their Broadway location because of Skytrain construction

https://scoutmagazine.ca/2023/01/12/heritage-asian-eatery-says-goodbye-to-its-broadway-location/

Conrad Yablonski · #**3335** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Heritage Asian Eatery is shutting down their Broadway location because of Skytrain construction

https://scoutmagazine.ca/2023/01/12/heritage-asian-eatery-says-goodbye-to-its-broadway-location/

I'm surprised there hasn't been more of this-I live just off 4th and have to make an effort to even go near B'way since it's such a mess.

The passing cold weather took me to this dear place near where I used to work and I realised it was the construction that was keeping me away from other old faves.

logan5 · #**3336** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 4:33 AM**

Absolutely ridiculous that small business owners aren't being compensated for their losses because of subway construction. A payment of only 10 000$ would mean these businesses could survive.

jollyburger · #**3337** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 5:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Absolutely ridiculous that small business owners aren't being compensated for their losses because of subway construction. A payment of only 10 000$ would mean these businesses could survive.

Their rent is probably 10K a month

NewfBC · #**3338** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 4:45 PM**

Another one...

Broadway subway construction ironically kills Subway restaurant
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/hospi...onically-kills-subway-restaurant-6367572

Ron.

WarrenC12 · #**3339** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 5:23 PM**

The area has been brutalized for years(!) now. What a mess.

djh · #**3340** Posted **Jan 13, 2023, 6:07 PM**

I don't understand how we (as a city bureaucracy) didn't learn from the last time we went through this with the Canada Line in 2008-2010. The damage to businesses along the route was severe, those companies just died and never came back, and City Hall was lambasted for their lack of empathy and low-effort attempts to help.

You would have thought that somebody there would have written a report about how the debacle occurred - we all know how City Hall loves a nice long expensive consultant's report! - and therefore would have been better-prepared for the Millennium Line extension disruption. Apparently, little was learned, the same mistakes were repeated, and again, more small businesses will disappear.

It also seems like this time around there is way less media discussion and little public outrage is getting any momentum, unlike last time.

Hopefully, the businesses along the corridor will file a Class Action Lawsuit against the City, so that they are forced to implement definite procedures to help businesses affected by the disruption directly resultant of the City's acts. At the very minimum, they should expect massive tax cuts during construction, but ideally there should be a fund to compensate them for lost average sales, and/or a fund to equally cover their rent or leases. And/or the City should be forced to help disrupted companies to temporarily relocate - help them break their leases without consequences, or find them new locations, or whatever.

We need small businesses in the city, and watching them die due to city lack of caring is immoral.