It’s the new-normal, COVID-world equivalent of the ‘Freshman 15’ — that extra ‘winter lining’ that college and university students joke about packing on thanks to all those starchy cafeteria meals, late-night pizza study sessions and carbo-loaded junk food stretches in between courses.

However all you new post-secondary recruits are planning on ‘puttin’ on YOUR COVID 19’, we’ve got tons of great dine-in, take-out and late-night delivery options available from small and independent restaurants in your college town listed on our website.

In an effort to try and cure the latest edition of our long-standing Case of the Mondays, we’re rebranding #MCM into #meatcrushmonday. Because: burgers.

Submitted for your approval are the most moistest, mouth-melty, lip-smacking, finger-drippy delicious burgers from some of our Breaking Bread restaurants that recently cracked Blog TO’s list of the 50 Essential Burgers in Toronto.

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News — some good, some of the not-so-good variety — on the current state of the foodservice and hospitality industry from Restaurants Canada this past week as the national advocacy group released its 2020 Foodservice Facts Report.

Not-so-good news first: In 2019, the Canadian industry generated more than $93 billion in sales and was on track to surpass $100 billion in 2021, but due to the pandemic the industry is predicted to lose between $21.7 and $44.8 billion in annual sales in 2020.

Now, the good news: some pre-COVID industry trends such as the rise of ‘ghost kitchens’ (brands that operate with no storefront and focus entirely on delivery through mobile and online platforms) were accelerated and may present opportunities to restaurants that have the ability to continue pivoting their business model moving forward.

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