{"id":193398,"date":"2023-11-09T02:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=193398"},"modified":"2023-11-09T02:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:47:34","slug":"restaurants-for-change-fundraiser-raises-over-20000-despite-industry-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/restaurants-for-change-fundraiser-raises-over-20000-despite-industry-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants for Change fundraiser raises over $20,000 despite industry struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fifth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/nelsoncfc.ca\/restaurants-for-change-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Restaurants for Change<\/a> fundraiser for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nelsoncfc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nelson Community Food Centre<\/a> raised over $20,000 this fall even though the local restaurant industry has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s event, held on Oct. 17, saw 14 local restaurants take part in donating their gross sales from dinner service to the food centre. The $20,000 amount is down slightly from last year when 16 restaurants raised over $25,000. <\/span>The money will help fund the Nelson Community Food Centres four programs: the Good Food Bank, Food Skills, the Gardens and Harvest Rescue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite raising less money this year, Andrew Creighton from the Nelson Community Food Centre was pleased with the outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe money is part of it but it\u2019s a great opportunity to encourage people to talk about food security issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CJLY also spoke with Tom Thomson from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovernelson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce<\/a> about the current state of the restaurant industry and the impact that could have had on the success of Restaurants for Change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thomson mentioned increased business costs, the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising interest rates for both businesses and consumers as factors keeping the restaurant industry in decline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the story on CJLY below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth annual Restaurants for Change fundraiser for the Nelson Community Food Centre raised over $20,000 this fall even though the local restaurant industry has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels. This year\u2019s event, held on Oct. 17, saw 14 local restaurants take part in donating their gross sales from dinner service to the food&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":193429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[32573,32572,32571,32570,27639],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193554,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193398\/revisions\/193554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193398"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=193398"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=193398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}