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COMING<br />
EVENTS<br />
BEYOND<br />
BE GONE<br />
MARCH 1-3 RC Show 2020, Enercare Centre,<br />
Toronto. Tel: 800-387-5649; email: theshow@<br />
restaurantscanada.org; website: rcshow.com<br />
APRIL 1-2 16th Annual North American<br />
Summit on Food Safety, Old Mill, Toronto. Tel:<br />
416-236-2641; website: foodsafetycanada.com<br />
APRIL 21 Vision 20/20 Conference hosted by<br />
KML, Sheraton Centre Toronto. Tel: 416-447-<br />
0888, ext. 235; email: dpricoiu@kostuchmedia.<br />
com; website: kostuchmedia.com<br />
April 4-5 Franchise Expo Vancouver,<br />
Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver.<br />
Tel: 800-891-4859, ext. 231; email: danielle@<br />
nationalevent.com; franchiseshowinfo.com/<br />
vancouver<br />
FOR MORE EVENTS VISIT<br />
foodserviceandhospitalitycom/events/<br />
TIM HORTONS has officially dropped<br />
all Beyond-Meat products from its<br />
menu. The announcement was made<br />
in late January — less than a year after<br />
the products debuted on its menu. In<br />
the summer of 2019, Tim Hortons<br />
began rolling out a number of plantbased<br />
menu options across its nearly<br />
4,000 Canadian restaurants, including<br />
the Beyond Meat sausage patty<br />
and Beyond Meat burger patty. A few<br />
months later, the company scaled<br />
back availability of its plant-based<br />
products, offering them exclusively in<br />
its B.C. and Ontario locations. A Tim<br />
Hortons spokesperson indicated the<br />
company may circle back to Beyond<br />
Meat and other plant-based products<br />
in the future, adding “the product<br />
was not embraced by our guests as we<br />
thought it would be.”<br />
COMPETITIVE EDGE<br />
iSTOCK.COM/MAXIMFESENKO [BARTENDAR WITH WINE]<br />
ALCOHOL NB LIQUOR<br />
(ANBL) announced a<br />
new rebate program<br />
for New Brunswick bar<br />
and restaurant licensees,<br />
which will come<br />
into effect April 1, 2020.<br />
“We’re very pleased<br />
to be able to offer this<br />
milestone program<br />
in response to the<br />
hospitality industry’s<br />
long-standing request<br />
for more competitive<br />
beverage-alcohol pricing,” says Patrick Parent, CEO, ANBL. “We value our partnership<br />
with all licensees — they’re significant contributors to the province’s economy with more<br />
than 25,000 related jobs — and we’re very supportive of efforts to help their industry<br />
grow.” The rebate program is part of ANBL’s new three-year plan to become more competitive<br />
with neighbouring jurisdictions. Once in effect, ANBL will offer a five- to 10-percent<br />
rebate on licensees’ wine and spirit purchases and a one-per-cent rebate on certain<br />
categories of beer products and ready-to-drink products. This program was developed<br />
alongside Restaurants Canada and the New Brunswick Restaurant Association (RANB/<br />
ARNB). Further program details will be shared with licensees at a later date.<br />
FOODSERVICEANDHOSPITALITY.COM