Nourishing our Nation: A riding-by-riding look at Canada s restaurant industry No. of People Employed No. of Foodservice Businesses Abbotsford 340 5,220 Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou 120 1,750 Abitibi-Témiscamingue 190 2,360 Acadie-Bathurst 140 2,050 Ahuntsic-Cartierville 250 2,940 Ajax 200 3,060 Alfred-Pellan 130 2,120 Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing 200 2,260 Argenteuil-La Petite-Nation 190 2,080 Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill 160 1,920 Avalon 90 940 Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia 140 1,950 Banff-Airdrie 420 6,190 Barrie-Innisfil 210 3,430 Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte 300 4,370 Battle River-Crowfoot 310 3,480 Battlefords-Lloydminster 140 1,600 Bay of Quinte 320 4,250 Beaches-East York 270 2,550 Beauce 200 3,250 Beauport-Côte-de-Beaupré-Île d Orléans-Charlevoix 190 2,770 Beauport-Limoilou 190 2,870 Beauséjour 140 1,870 Bécancour-Nicolet-Saurel 160 2,190 Bellechasse-Les Etchemins-Lévis 200 2,960 Beloeil-Chambly 220 2,950 Berthier-Maskinongé 170 2,020 Bonavista-Burin-Trinity 120 1,200 Bourassa 170 1,970 Bow River 230 2,380 Brampton Centre 300 3,800 Brampton East 180 2,330 Brampton North 130 2,100 Brampton South 210 1,990 Brampton West 120 1,250 Brandon-Souris 260 3,630 Brantford-Brant 340 4,840 Brome-Missisquoi 280 3,560 Brossard-Saint-Lambert 280 4,130 Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound 300 3,540 Burlington 380 5,800 Burnaby North-Seymour 320 3,830 Burnaby South 400 5,570
Calgary Centre 1,240 15,750 Calgary Confederation 530 7,040 Calgary Forest Lawn 440 6,060 Calgary Heritage 180 3,360 Calgary Midnapore 320 5,670 Calgary Nose Hill 130 1,810 Calgary Rocky Ridge 140 2,410 Calgary Shepard 230 3,430 Calgary Signal Hill 180 3,050 Calgary Skyview 270 3,620 Cambridge 320 3,980 Cape Breton-Canso 130 1,600 Cardigan 60 1,050 Cariboo-Prince George 250 4,110 Carleton 110 1,350 Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek 110 990 Central Nova 180 2,210 Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola 310 3,970 Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles 130 2,620 Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley 170 3,070 Charlottetown 200 3,520 Châteauguay-Lacolle 190 2,750 Chatham-Kent-Leamington 290 3,870 Chicoutimi-Le Fjord 180 2,910 Chilliwack-Hope 310 4,130 Churchill-Keewatinook Aski 100 1,290 Cloverdale-Langley City 310 4,280 Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame 130 1,500 Compton-Stanstead 460 6,130 Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam 300 4,710 Courtenay-Alberni 340 4,680 Cowichan-Malahat-Langford 290 3,820 Cumberland-Colchester 190 2,200 Cypress Hills-Grasslands 170 1,740 Dartmouth-Cole Harbour 260 3,910 Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa 170 1,970 Davenport 310 2,690 Delta 210 3,060 Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River 80 780 Don Valley East 210 2,530 Don Valley North 220 2,920 Don Valley West 260 2,910 Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle 340 3,920 Drummond 200 3,410 Dufferin-Caledon 240 3,610 Durham 220 3,570 Edmonton Centre 750 9,710 Edmonton Griesbach 260 3,310 Edmonton Manning 190 2,960 Edmonton Mill Woods 270 5,210 Edmonton Riverbend 170 2,440 Edmonton Strathcona 480 6,880
Edmonton West 370 5,970 Edmonton-Wetaskiwin 290 3,850 Eglinton-Lawrence 360 4,200 Egmont 90 1,270 Elgin-Middlesex-London 220 3,060 Elmwood-Transcona 180 4,140 Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke 200 3,140 Essex 220 2,700 Etobicoke Centre 130 1,230 Etobicoke North 280 3,520 Etobicoke-Lakeshore 540 5,740 Flamborough-Glanbrook 160 2,480 Fleetwood-Port Kells 150 2,060 Foothills 270 3,160 Fort McMurray-Cold Lake 220 3,580 Fredericton 240 3,970 Fundy Royal 120 1,540 Gaspésie-Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine 30 450 Gatineau 200 2,850 Glengarry-Prescott-Russell 190 2,690 Grande Prairie-Mackenzie 260 4,350 Guelph 390 5,560 Haldimand-Norfolk 220 2,950 Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock 270 2,870 Halifax 800 5,870 Halifax West 190 3,020 Hamilton Centre 520 5,810 Hamilton East-Stoney Creek 290 3,540 Hamilton Mountain 260 4,220 Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas 240 3,630 Hastings-Lennox and Addington 210 2,060 Hochelaga 200 2,390 Honoré-Mercier 140 1,530 Hull-Aylmer 270 4,280 Humber River-Black Creek 220 1,700 Huron-Bruce 270 3,350 Joliette 270 3,400 Jonquière 100 1,580 Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo 370 6,040 Kanata-Carleton 180 3,510 Kelowna-Lake Country 320 5,330 Kenora 110 1,540 Kildonan-St. Paul 130 2,150 King-Vaughan 160 1,840 Kings-Hants 170 1,940 Kingston and the Islands 460 6,470 Kitchener Centre 270 4,110 Kitchener South-Hespeler 190 3,410 Kitchener-Conestoga 140 2,400 Kootenay-Columbia 420 5,290 La Pointe-de-l'Île 170 2,040 La Prairie 170 2,320
Labrador 50 560 Lac-Saint-Jean 160 2,420 Lac-Saint-Louis 250 3,410 Lakeland 260 3,230 Lambton-Kent-Middlesex 220 2,540 Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston 190 2,160 Langley-Aldergrove 270 4,160 LaSalle-Émard-Verdun 160 1,680 Laurentides-Labelle 420 5,350 Laurier-Sainte-Marie 900 11,350 Laval-Les Îles 140 1,450 Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes 250 3,550 Lethbridge 310 4,670 Lévis-Lotbinière 120 2,020 London North Centre 460 6,690 London West 190 3,130 London-Fanshawe 290 5,350 Long Range Mountains 160 1,630 Longueuil-Charles-LeMoyne 230 2,780 Longueuil-Saint-Hubert 200 2,930 Louis-Hébert 370 6,590 Louis-Saint-Laurent 210 3,320 Madawaska-Restigouche 130 1,710 Malpeque 70 1,280 Manicouagan 190 2,580 Marc-Aurèle-Fortin 170 2,480 Markham-Stouffville 190 1,860 Markham-Thornhill 300 3,400 Markham-Unionville 290 3,330 Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner 230 3,370 Mégantic-L'Érable 160 2,040 Milton 220 3,300 Mirabel 140 1,960 Miramichi-Grand Lake 110 1,260 Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon 180 2,010 Mississauga Centre 310 4,290 Mississauga East-Cooksville 320 3,480 Mississauga-Erin Mills 170 2,050 Mississauga-Lakeshore 290 3,540 Mississauga-Malton 570 6,240 Mississauga-Streetsville 240 3,600 Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe 340 5,060 Montarville 170 2,640 Montcalm 150 2,260 Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup 180 2,970 Moose Jaw-Lake Centre-Lanigan 180 2,160 Mount Royal 250 2,620 Nanaimo-Ladysmith 340 4,610 Nepean 180 3,130 New Brunswick Southwest 70 720 New Westminster-Burnaby 300 3,590 Newmarket-Aurora 370 5,010
Niagara Centre 280 3,390 Niagara Falls 600 9,510 Niagara West 150 2,010 Nickel Belt 150 1,960 Nipissing-Timiskaming 250 3,250 North Island-Powell River 250 2,970 North Okanagan-Shuswap 310 4,090 North Vancouver 340 4,110 Northumberland-Peterborough South 230 3,000 Northwest Territories 70 950 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount 320 3,320 Nunavut 10 40 Oakville 450 6,250 Oakville North-Burlington 190 3,040 Orléans 230 3,300 Oshawa 320 3,950 Ottawa Centre 780 8,780 Ottawa South 320 5,170 Ottawa West-Nepean 300 4,180 Ottawa-Vanier 560 8,250 Outremont 490 5,310 Oxford 210 3,180 Papineau 330 2,760 Parkdale-High Park 320 2,950 Parry Sound-Muskoka 310 3,970 Peace River-Westlock 250 3,300 Perth-Wellington 230 3,240 Peterborough-Kawartha 380 5,360 Pickering-Uxbridge 240 3,240 Pierre-Boucher-Les Patriotes-Verchères 200 3,300 Pierrefonds-Dollard 260 3,070 Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge 180 2,910 Pontiac 110 1,390 Port Moody-Coquitlam 200 3,600 Portage-Lisgar 150 2,000 Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier 130 1,740 Prince Albert 170 2,390 Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies 360 5,190 Provencher 110 1,590 Québec 550 8,680 Red Deer-Lacombe 310 4,020 Red Deer-Mountain View 320 5,600 Regina-Lewvan 170 2,630 Regina-Qu'Appelle 180 2,460 Regina-Wascana 280 5,010 Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke 260 3,610 Repentigny 240 3,030 Richmond Centre 470 7,100 Richmond Hill 400 4,810 Richmond-Arthabaska 200 2,890 Rimouski-Neigette-Témiscouata-Les Basques 200 2,830 Rivière-des-Mille-Îles 290 4,450
Rivière-du-Nord 220 3,020 Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie 390 3,790 Saanich-Gulf Islands 210 3,010 Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook 110 1,380 Saint Boniface-Saint Vital 160 2,430 Saint John-Rothesay 250 3,680 Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot 210 3,470 Saint-Jean 210 3,150 Saint-Laurent 250 2,560 Saint-Léonard-Saint-Michel 250 2,650 Saint-Maurice-Champlain 190 2,340 Salaberry-Suroît 220 2,390 Sarnia-Lambton 290 4,120 Saskatoon West 340 5,640 Saskatoon-Grasswood 140 2,840 Saskatoon-University 200 2,870 Sault Ste. Marie 180 3,110 Scarborough Centre 330 3,930 Scarborough North 230 2,280 Scarborough Southwest 190 2,010 Scarborough-Agincourt 210 2,300 Scarborough-Guildwood 160 1,770 Scarborough-Rouge Park 120 1,390 Selkirk-Interlake-Eastman 230 2,450 Shefford 240 3,150 Sherbrooke 300 4,480 Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan 290 4,470 Simcoe North 260 3,380 Simcoe-Grey 300 4,140 Skeena-Bulkley Valley 250 2,680 Souris-Moose Mountain 180 2,200 South Okanagan-West Kootenay 390 4,770 South Shore-St. Margarets 200 2,530 South Surrey-White Rock 310 4,630 Spadina-Fort York 1,020 12,830 St. Albert-Edmonton 250 4,390 St. Catharines 420 5,320 St. John's East 250 3,330 St. John's South-Mount Pearl 150 2,150 Steveston-Richmond East 290 4,650 Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry 240 2,960 Sturgeon River-Parkland 210 3,320 Sudbury 260 4,120 Surrey Centre 290 3,950 Surrey-Newton 230 2,940 Sydney-Victoria 180 2,730 Terrebonne 250 3,220 Thérèse-De Blainville 180 2,360 Thornhill 480 4,940 Thunder Bay-Rainy River 210 3,170 Thunder Bay-Superior North 220 3,400 Timmins-James Bay 160 1,930
Tobique-Mactaquac 120 1,560 Toronto Centre 840 10,410 Toronto-Danforth 410 3,950 Toronto-St. Paul's 390 4,280 Trois-Rivières 330 5,170 University-Rosedale 990 10,790 Vancouver Centre 1,280 19,680 Vancouver East 710 8,590 Vancouver Granville 560 7,200 Vancouver Kingsway 310 3,520 Vancouver Quadra 430 5,220 Vancouver South 200 1,990 Vaudreuil-Soulanges 210 3,010 Vaughan-Woodbridge 320 3,900 Victoria 630 8,400 Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest-Île-des-Sœurs 1,460 18,580 Vimy 370 5,330 Waterloo 370 5,590 Wellington-Halton Hills 250 3,200 West Nova 180 2,010 West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country 450 7,500 Whitby 300 4,670 Willowdale 300 2,900 Windsor West 470 6,750 Windsor-Tecumseh 290 4,100 Winnipeg Centre 630 9,640 Winnipeg North 140 1,990 Winnipeg South 180 4,210 Winnipeg South Centre 320 5,280 Yellowhead 250 3,220 York Centre 240 2,220 York South-Weston 220 2,510 York-Simcoe 190 2,040 Yorkton-Melville 170 1,790 Yukon 90 1,140 *Lists were compiled using data from Restaurants Canada, Business Register, Statistics Canada and ReCount/NPD Group. **For more information on the rankings, please visit: http://bit.ly/1qagdqg or RestaurantsCanada.org Small Businesses, Big Impact Canada s restaurant and foodservice businesses generate: $72 billion in annual sales, 95% of which are invested back into people, products and services, as well as local, provincial and federal taxes. 1.2 million direct jobs, including 512,000 jobs for youth $300 million + in charitable donations Learn more at www.restaurantscanada.org