Southern Ontario restaurants scramble for outdoor heaters

KITCHENER, Ont. — Retailers are selling out of outdoor heaters as restaurateurs seek to prolong the patio season for as long as possible to mitigate the pandemic’s hit on their revenues. “They’re completely sold out everywhere,” Jake Richards, general manager of Loloan Lobby Bar in Waterloo, Ont., told the CBC. “Absolutely every single one, nothing locally and even in Toronto inventory was at one or two.” His establishment has taken to distributing fleece blankets instead.

“Whenever the demand is that high for something it’s just really difficult to find them anywhere in town,” said Zach Haime, manager of Swanson’s Home Hardware in Kitchener. “Supply chain took a hit and everything is backed up. They’re trying their hardest to get everything going.”

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