Time Out Market is back
The Gazette asked this week whether food courts will survive: Time Out Market is back, with distancing measures and only six concessions operating, and Le Cathcart and Le Central have also reopened with reduced seating.
JP Karwacki, who has to balance out writing about Montreal for Time Out with doing PR for Time Out on the same platform, tells about DJs and live bands scheduled at Time Out over the next few weeks.
Douglas 11:27 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
They will survive if the landlords help them. Bailout levels of help.
If restaurants die in the food courts, which tenant will come and replace them at previous rents? None.
I would help every single tenant survive as long as I can.
The fact that tens off thousands of workers won’t come back downtown because of work from home suggests to me that no, food courts won’t survive.
Faiz imam 12:37 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
I’ve gone to a couple local suburban malls. Food courts seems to be decently populated.
I don’t know if the trend to high end courts will survive, but the cheap stuff certainly has a future. Plenty of people don’t want to eat at home, and they’ll go wherever is available to do it.
Uatu 17:36 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
Communal eating returned after the Black plague so it should be able to survive covid 19. We’ll see in what version, tho
Kate 21:04 on 2020-08-08 Permalink
I wonder how long it took, Uatu.
Dhomas 19:13 on 2020-08-09 Permalink
I was just reading a story about how they dealt with the plague in Tuscany:
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/tuscany-wine-windows-plague-coronavirus-pandemic
I was also reading about how the mask debate is also not new to this pandemic:
https://indianexpress.com/article/research/lessons-from-1918-spanish-flu-when-mask-laws-triggered-protests-in-us-6547350/lite/