innsertnamehere
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the restaurant needed some money too, its was fairly rundown. Probably decided to shut down instead of spend the money.
A shame, but I get it.
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A shame, but I get it.
Northern Light
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Apparently The Pickle Barrel at The Atrium is toast.
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Toronto's only downtown Pickle Barrel restaurant just permanently closed
Toronto's downtown Pickle Barrel has closed for good. A post was made to Toronto Facebook group Food and Wine Industry Navigator that shows the asset…
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AlbertC
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Not entirely surprising. The Pickel Barrel heavily relied on tourists or folks from the 905 coming downtown on the weekends.
Richard White
Senior Member
I used to work there in 2007/2008. Given the size I am just surprised it did not close sooner.
I rode inside the Dumbwaiter there as part of an "employee bonding" experience. I also watched it catch fire New Years Day 2008.
soundmuseum
Active Member
In related Atrium news, the hoarding has gone up for the upcoming Popeye's in the food court. Also, the McDonald's is apparently going to shut down due to rent increases. It will be replaced by a Burger King.
Bayer
Senior Member
Apparently The Pickle Barrel at The Atrium is toast.
Toronto's only downtown Pickle Barrel restaurant just permanently closed
Toronto's downtown Pickle Barrel has closed for good. A post was made to Toronto Facebook group Food and Wine Industry Navigator that shows the asset…
Wow... that brings back memories of my second trip to Toronto before I moved from Québec City, in 1986; I had dinner there with friends... Not a good restaurant by any measure, but it had been there for such a long time. I recall having my first piece of cheesecake there.
Richard White
Senior Member
When I worked there we got sprayed for roaches weekly. We actually had staff cleaning days the day before a health inspector was to show up where the restaurant closed early for deep cleaning.
The bugs were so bad that I used to joke that if your plate crawled across the table, kill it and go somewhere else.
AlvinofDiaspar
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The quality of the food seem to have gotten worse over the years - to the point I won't even lament it.
AoD
Johnny Au
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...despite there already being a Burger King on Yonge just south of Dundas Square.
To be fair, there's already too many McDonald's in that area (almost the same density of McDonald's as midtown Manhattan).
Northern Light
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A density of 1 McDonalds per 1,000,000 km2 is infinitely excessive.
Johnny Au
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There are 38,695 McDonald's in 2019 and the total land area of the Earth is approximately 510,072,000 km^2.
Doing the math and the world density of McDonald's is one McDonald's every approximately 13,181.8581 km^2 of land on Earth.
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Northern Light
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LOL, you do manage to come up with some interesting factoids.
To be clear, I meant one in any 1M km2, not an average!
Johnny Au
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I have clarified the stats:
There are 38,695 McDonald's in 2019 and the total land area of the Earth is approximately 510,072,000 km^2.
Doing the math and the world density of McDonald's in 2019 is one McDonald's every approximately 13,181.8581 km^2 of land on Earth, which is practically one McDonald's per land area the size of Nunavut's King William Island (including water features) or Montenegro or Puerto Rico excluding water features for both.
Population-wise, there are approximately one McDonald's per 200,000 people worldwide in 2019.
Yes, I do get your point.
AlbertC
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Additional signage installed to verify that Maison T at Dupont & Shaw is indeed a new restaurant:
Towered
Superstar
The bloodletting continues:
The Duke of Somerset, a British pub that had been at the corner of Bay and Walton since at least the 90's - gone.
Hot Star, an outpost of a much ballyhooed Taiwanese fried chicken chain at Yonge and Gerrard - done.
The Duke of Somerset, a British pub that had been at the corner of Bay and Walton since at least the 90's - gone.
Hot Star, an outpost of a much ballyhooed Taiwanese fried chicken chain at Yonge and Gerrard - done.