Dine-In Victoria closed on Aug. 9, after 20 years of doing food delivery in Greater Victoria.
At its peak, in 2016, owner Maggie Rideout said the service launched a new website and employed about 50 drivers who made deliveries from about 60 restaurants to customers within the region.
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Rideout said she had been planning to launch a new app in two weeks, in an effort to compete, but ultimately decided to close because DoorDash also came to Victoria.
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From 2017 until now, she said Dine-In Victoria was reduced to about a quarter of its customer base.
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On Thursday, she sent notifications to her remaining customers that Friday would be their last day of service.
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Despite Dine-In Victoria coming to a close, Rideout still has an appetite for the food industry. Already, the Dine-In Victoria office located at 829 Admirals Rd. in Esquimalt is being converted into a bistro.
She said they will do mostly take-out food at the bistro, which has yet to be named, though there will be enough seating to stop and have a coffee.
The bistro will be the new, public branch of a similar breakfast and lunch take-out business she has been running on private land for about 10 years.
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She said the front of the new public bistro has been completed, though the premises are still B次元官网网址渁 bit of a construction zone right now.B次元官网网址� Once construction is complete and menus have been set up, she expects the bistro will open in November.
The bistro may even do delivery through other services, such as her former competitors, she added.
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The Langford resident has worked in the food industry for a long time. She was the manager of Cafe Mexico for a couple of years before motherhood inspired her to do Dine-In Victoria.
B次元官网网址滿an it would be really nice to have somebody bring me food,B次元官网网址� she remembers thinking on busy nights with her kids, before friends suggested buying Dine-In Victoria.
karissa.gall@blackpress.ca
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