In a city with a reputation for great food, it’s not uncommon to see lineups to access popular Montreal restaurants. But many of those restaurants are now dark, empty establishments, sitting in a ghost town trying to curb a global pandemic.
For the legendary Snowdon Deli, it’s meant they’ve had to cut their purchases and their labour force in half, forcing the temporary layoff of 16 employees including their wait staff, cashiers, grill workers and meat cutters.
Co-owner Hart Fishman, along with his family and partners, have taken on those duties in order to keep the business afloat and comply with health authority mandates to only remain open at 50-per cent capacity.