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In operation since 1993, Jump is O&B's flagship restaurant. During that time it became a well known business lunch and dinner spot in Toronto's Financial District. [2]When it opened at the corner of Bay & Wellington West in late 1993 during the early 1990s recession in Canada, Jump was a major investment by the 44-year-old South African-born former stockbroker and real estate entrepreneur ...
The chain's namesake product is a line of fried dough pastries, individually hand-stretched to resemble a beaver's tail. The chain began in Ottawa and now has franchises and licensees in six countries: Canada (Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia and Quebec), the United States, Japan, France, U.A.E., and Mexico.
The brewery moved to a larger facility in order to accommodate the growth of the Amsterdam brand. In May 2013 the company partnered with family run hospitality group Urban Dining Group, Headed by Todd Sherman, Together they would become equal partners on the Amsterdam Brewhouse, a brew pub on the Toronto waterfront at 245 Queens Quay West.
Aeropostale Canada – subsidiary of the United States-based retailer Aeropostale, closed all 41 stores in Canada in 2016; A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993
This is an alphabetical list of companies that have at one-point or another been based in Ottawa: Abacus Data; Alterna Savings; Atkinson Film-Arts; Bank of Ottawa; Bell-Northern Research; BreconRidge; Bridgewater Systems; Brookstreet Pictures; Bruised Tongue; Campeau Corporation; Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation; Canada Mortgage and Housing ...
Built in 1962, the hotel consisted of two 15-floor towers, 6-storey atrium, a Chinese restaurant and 90,000 square feet (8,400 m 2) of convention space. Renovations took place in 2001. Once a popular hotel and convention venue, the hotel closed due to declining business and other setbacks, culminating with the SARS crisis.
Wild Wing Restaurants Inc., originally known as Wild Wing, was established in Sunderland, Ontario, on March 17, 1999, by Rick Smiciklas. [3] Its main business is focused on flavoured chicken wings. [4] By 2008, it had opened 32 franchise restaurants in Ontario, [4] and by March 2016 it had 85 locations throughout Canada, primarily in Ontario. [5]
He was also past president of the Toronto Stock Exchange, founder of Gardiner Oil and Gas Ltd. and Scott's Hospitality Inc. which acquired the Kentucky Fried Chicken rights for Canada in 1962. [3] Following a marriage in which he had three children, he married Helen Gardiner and with her co-founded the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Arts in Toronto.