A Toronto bar has temporarily converted to an online grocery store, a gear-shifting move one industry group says is increasingly common countrywide as a means to counter the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over about three weeks, Mother Cocktail Bar on Queen Street West has gone from serving drinks to delivering groceries. “The change is total.
It’s a 100 per cent transformation,” said Massimo Zitti, a bartender and partner at the bar. Zitti can now be found preparing groceries in the back kitchen.
His colleague, Austin Guan, is likely to be packing orders or making deliveries. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “Mainly it’s me and Massi working non-stop, so sometimes I’ve been working for like 12