08-31-2023, 05:53 PM
(08-31-2023, 02:55 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(08-30-2023, 10:57 PM)tomh009 Wrote: From memory, and between Queen and Victoria (excluding restaurants and cafes): there are at least two dollar stores, five bars, three night clubs, a barber shop, a shoe store, condo sales/rentals, a pharmacy, four banks, a museum, a thrift shop, a concert hall, an LCBO, a beer store, a grocery store, a shoe store, a clothing/yoga store, two used book stores, and a bunch of cannabis shops. Not that I wouldn't like to see more, but it's not 90% restaurants.
Maybe this is just my biased individual perspective, but the fact I know about all of those businesses and still consider downtown to be 90% restaurants says something about the quality of type of businesses that you've listed. Maybe it's just because I don't drink, the I also consider the bars to just be restaurants (or an arcade in one case, though King St is debatable there). And I'm not really convinced the shoe store actually sells shoes and isn't just a front...
Out of everything you listed I think only the night clubs (and maybe concert hall) actually draw any significant number of people into the area, and that's for only a small number of hours each week.
People will use the app where the restaurants are. It’s why some of the sleazier apps lie about which restaurants they service.
And getting restaurants on board would be utterly trivial “we aren’t beholden to VCs and won’t fuck you in the ass with a rake”. Literally every restaurant would join in a second.