Owners of the Flint House are looking to set up a food truck along the Fort Frances waterfront.
They’re eying space near the former Shevlin Woodyard.
It would be temporary. Owner Duane Cridland says it’s an effort to minimize the pandemic’s impact on their Scott Street restaurant.
“We’re just trying to do anything we can literally do to keep our doors open, keep afloat with this COVID. I see no end in sight of us having any American activity this summer. In the summertime, they’re 35 to 40 per cent of our business,” says Cridland.
There would be alcohol sold at the food truck, being called the ‘Flint Mobile.’
Cridland says because of the pandemic, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario is supporting initiatives like this through special events permits to help an industry hard hit.
“We are all getting cut in half, by two-thirds, right now 80 per cent, with all of our fixed costs not changing at all. We believe AGCO is very much supportive through this time of helping us get it,” says Cridland.
The Flint House is asking town council for permission to set up.
Cridland says with the town looking to redevelop the former woodyard, the food truck could be the start of many more businesses eying the waterfront as future locations.
“This could dovetail into the beginning of bringing some economic business towards waterfront as the town moves through the process of working on the Shevlin project.”
The issue is like to come before town council next week.
