Everyone is facing incredibly similar challenges. I would be remiss if I didn't position restaurants as being unique—certainly, given my job title—but the reality is that small businesses across the country are facing very similar uphill battles.
Whether it's the death by a thousand tax cuts or regulatory burdens, the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the global economy. How businesses operate is absolutely going to change. I think that as we look to exit the light of the pandemic tunnel, a lot of our operators have had to innovate to get as far as they have. Some of those innovations might be the robot servers at the restaurant in Sudbury that you mentioned, and some of them may be more touch-screen menus. Some of it may be a reduction in menu items offered, because costs prohibit anything else.
In the hospitality sector, in restaurants in particular, I think the labour shortage is our number one pain point right now, but I suspect that the death by a thousand cuts is something that is going to be felt—if not felt already—by every sector across the country.