Turns out, frozen yogurt and burritos were Toronto’s biggest restaurant trends in 2011
Last week, the NPD Group released a report full of interesting revelations about this hungry city’s eating habits and the effects they have on restaurants. The bad news is restaurants suffered: 60 per cent of all Canadian restaurant closures in 2011 happened in Toronto, with independent “ethnic” restaurants bearing the brunt of it. Not suffering in 2011 were froyo shops and burrito joints, which opened more locations than any other category (whether this constitutes good or bad news is debatable). The actually good news is that a January report from the same group predicted that Canadian restaurants would experience a 10 per cent increase in traffic over the next decade (outpacing projected population growth), and given what we saw in March, April and May, we think the market is making a healthy turnaround.
(Images: frozen yogurt, janineomg; burrito, Aranami)
. The actually good news is that a January report from the same group predicted that Canadian restaurants would experience a 10 per cent increase in traffic over the next decade (outpacing projected population growth), and given what we saw in March, April and May, we think the market is making a healthy turnaround.
(Images: frozen yogurt, janineomg; burrito, Aranami)){kind=link}
opening more locations of a certain style of food or brand does not constitute a trend…just an easily identified group
more hipster style chef driven specialty restaurants opened than yogurt shops. they just aren’t categorized in the same manner.
ask the same type of question for the category of places like grand electric, the westerly, hopgoods, marben and the rest that cater to a specific demographic and i’ll bet that more of those opened than yogurt shops….
And so Toronto catches up with the dominant trends on the West Coast in 2006.
what connection do burritos have with Toronto food culture? zero
what connection do burritos have with multinational fast food corporations?
TO Life thankyou for your spellbounding research and creative writing. This is absolute fluff. Maybe you should give Chatto a call.
Sooo many bad burrito joints in TO makes me wanna shoot guns and yell la cucaracha!
Toss that garbage in the bin and write about some real food!