Never even heard of the place, I must get out more

You didn't miss much...

On 15th you say?

9 out of 10 restaurants fail. It looks like but is not the easiest business to run if you can start one. I can't comprehend the rules, bylaws, health laws, tax situations, employee relations, business licenses, food costs, advertising, three tax departments after your profit. Municipal, provincial, and federal. Plus Foodsafe. Plus finding dependable experienced, honest,and hardworking employees. Don't forget the hoops to jump through for a liquor license. And rent, insurance, advertising and the landlord. Hydro, phone and natural gas bills. Want to start a small business? Buy a big business and let the government help you run it.

Gee a restaurant fails where every attempt to keep a restaurant open has failed in the past. I wonder what genius will try to open a new restaurant in exactly the same place next time.

Too many people watching the Food channel. A full tummy on the couch watching these shows, and presto! You doze off dreaming about your own successful restaurant. Go for a walk with yer full tummy. Cheaper and better for ya.

Have you noticed as I have that there are only hole in the wall pizza joints, Chinese restaurants and the rest are franchises? Very few independents. Google up a restaurant and go to the franchise info. Very eye opening.

Even more so when a new restaurant opens in P.G. they are crazy busy for a week or two and then whammo they are as quiet as a church and they close. It seems that the first month of newness gets expectations up and then reality sets in and the place closes.

There are loads of good restaurants left in town and not all of them are franchises. Some that come to mind are CIMO, North 54, Mai Thai, The Caribou, Thanh Vu and Metora Taverna. If you have a niche you'll probably do well, as evidenced by the types of restaurants I noted above. Then you also have the franchise stuff as well.

For a town our size I think we actually have a pretty good selection of good restaurants. I think the key is having consistently good food, offering good service and providing food that isn't available on every corner.

Thanks to our "forward" looking city council ( the previous ones)I was told that when the Husky truck stop was rebuilt and modernized,for some reason city council then didn't allow Husky to enlarge their restaurant square footage. And they also put a limit on the size of East Side Mario's when it was proposed. Never let it be said that city hall is your friend.

Could be they hadn't paid their GST owing. I remember another place in town on Brunswick Street that didn't pay and they were shut down pretty quick.

BTW
This was not a restaurant, it was a bar/pub that served food as well.

As for why, GST is the thing.....that gets new places like this on the hook....

I can't believe how uninformed you people are, about what kind of business this is / was!! But it doesn't surprise me too much, as most of you are in the dark about a lot of subjects on this site!!

Why don't you all get a life, or crawl in a hole!! Either way, the world would be a better place, without your missinformed comments, on subjects you know nothing about!!

You all know nothing about their business, whether they kept up to date with their GST, or whether they were behind on paying the wages for their employee's! You idiots know nothing about squat!! Gossip, gossip, gossip. SHUT UP ALREADY!!

Did you ever think it might be a Liquor Licence violations??? Yep, you all know squat about most things!!

I'm guessing it is a liquor licence violation, as the cold beer and liquor store is still open!! But you morons, jump to conclusions all the time. Get your facts right, or shut your fat lips!!

and one more thing, this was a Pub, not a Restaurant. So now what do you have to say, you SO INFORMED idiots!! We don't need rumour mill people on this sight!! Go tend your sheep!!

WOW, taxi, try getting up on the other side of bed. Maybe that will help.

Haha, that rant just made my Monday morning :)

"I can't believe how uninformed you people are, about what kind of business this is / was!!"

Tells us something about what the owners did wrong, doesn't it. Location, location, location, for one.

Street presence, for another.

Accessibility for another.

Advertising ......

Not even to speak about the quality of the service and food and entertainment.

One more time we see that a liquor license is not a license to print money. The same happened to the original Shooters in Parkwood.

"I can't believe how uninformed you people are."
"I'm guessing it is a liquor licence violation, as the cold beer and liquor store is still open!!"

taxinapothole I see that you are so informed as to the business ongoings in this town. Fact, the cold beer and wine store is not run by the same people.

"I'm guessing it is a liquor licence violation" Your right your guessing!!

You post showes you intelligence, crawl back into your pothole!!!