More details have been released about the $5 million Dine-In Restaurant Support Program, as well as applications opening up.
Executive Director of the Dauphin and District Chamber of Commerce, Stephen Chychota, says it’s a rebate program trying to offset food delivery costs for restaurants that were dine-in and had to switch their model.
“It also applies to restaurants that already had occurring delivery programs, but with those ones, they would be more on a percentage base and then the ones that have had to create the whole delivery program themselves or sign up to get into delivery programs like Skip or Dash, there’s rebates for the fees associated or for the costs the restaurants would take on.”
Restaurants or bars that had to create a delivery service or have a delivery service are eligible for the program.
Chychota says the program covers the time period a region was under code red measures. So, that means the program doesn’t cover the full year, just when code red started, Chychota adds that when code red ends, that’s when the program will stop.
The amount of money a business gets from the program will vary.
“It varies depending on which region you’re from. Some areas like Winnipeg vs the rest of the province went into it at different start dates. So just depending on where everyone’s located, you’ll have to watch for when the rebates would start kicking in.”
Chychota encourages local restaurants to look into the program because every little bit helps.
If you’d like to go to the application, click here.
