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London and Sarnia Seniors
Receive Heart to Home Meals
Delivery Service
Seniors in London and Sarnia can
now order the popular home-deliv-
ery meal service from Heart to Home
Meals. A new franchise in southwest-
ern Ontario is offering a wide range
of more than 200 frozen home-style
meals and desserts that can be deliv-
ered from a menu catalogue or online.
“Our goal is to help seniors live
independently in the comfort of their
own homes,” said Paul Knight, the
new franchise owner. “There is no
service like Heart to Home Meals in
the area, and many seniors, particu-
larly those challenged with mobility,
will find the convenience and qual-
ity of our food a real benefit. I’m so
happy to be part of a team commit-
ted to helping our community.”
Along with the food, seniors will
also benefit from regular visits by
delivery drivers, who help provide
an additional point of contact.
Atlantic Canada Welcomes 20
New A&W Franchises
With more than 890 restaurants in
Canada already, A&W plans to open
hundreds more across the country
by 2020. The priority focus for 2017
is on Atlantic Canada, with plans to
award 20 new restaurants to fran-
chisees in the region. Some of these
restaurants will be located in bigger
cities, such as Halifax, Nova Scotia;
Moncton, Fredericton, and Saint
John, New Brunswick; and St. John’s,
Newfoundland. A&W has also pre-
selected several vibrant small towns
for the expansion.
“Our research shows that the east
coast offers tremendous expansion
opportunities for A&W,” says Yanick
Morin, National Director, Franchise
Development, A&W Food Services of
Canada Inc. “There is a general per-
ception that businesses in Atlantic
Canada are not performing as well as
in other regions in Canada, but the
food service industry is growing. In
fact, our free-standing restaurants
across the east coast have experi-
enced year-over-year growth, and our
A&W franchisees in Atlantic Canada
operate some of the most successful
restaurants in the entire country.”Smoke’s Poutinerie Expands
into Edmonton
Smoke’s Poutinerie, the “World’s
Largest and Original Poutinerie,”
announced that it has signed a fran-
chise agreement for its first retail
location in Edmonton, Alberta, to be
located on Whyte Avenue.
“We’ve heard the pleas of our
PLAID NATION fans in Edmonton,
and more than ever before in the
city’s famed river valley, you canhear the cries for Smoke’s Poutin-
erie,” said Ryan Smolkin, Founder
and CEO.
The franchise deal to open the
new Smoke’s Poutinerie has been
struck with Gong Zhang, who has
been a loyal Smoke’s Poutinerie fan
since his college days at Fanshawe
College. Combining his degree in
business accounting and experi-
ence working in quick service food
and beverage management, Zhang
has amassed the skills that have led
him to pursue his dream of opening
and operating his very own Smoke’s
Poutinerie franchise.MR MIKES® SteakhouseCasual
Set to Open 30 Locations
MR MIKES® SteakhouseCasual, known
throughout Western Canada, is proud
to announce the expansion of its fran-
chise offerings into Eastern Canada,
with the first location set to open in
southwestern Ontario this fall.
MR MIKES® estimates the poten-
tial for 70 restaurant franchises in
Ontario alone, adding to more than
35 locations currently open through-
out Western Canada. Each franchise
location will add at least 60 new
jobs to the local economies of the
communities in which MR MIKES®
resides, and will also develop fund-
raising partnerships with local char-
ities and organizations.
“We recognized franchise oppor-
tunities throughout Ontario and
Eastern Canada in communities
that complement the vision of MR
MIKES®, and look forward to devel-
oping relationships with prospective
franchisees and new guests across
the country,” said Rick Villalpando,
Senior Vice President, Business
Development for RAMMP Hospital-
ity Brands, parent company of MR
MIKES® SteakhouseCasual.INDUSTRY NEWS
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Linda and
Paul Knight,
owners of the
London and
Sarnia Heart to
Home Meals
franchise.