![]() ![]() ![]() “There were quite a few email scams going around affecting restaurants during COVID-19,” he said.ĭarryl Haus is the owner of both the Grand Surf Lounge and Grand Trunk Saloon in Kitchener and the maître d’ at Conestoga College’s teaching restaurant Bloom. One that could have cost him over $1,000. ![]() “Some of the general questions of what time you could pick up, how would you be paying, and different questions like that that we brought up to them, that they never answered.”Įckhardt said he stopped replying after a few email exchanges and now believes it was a fake order. “The large amount of food, not giving a name for the volunteer relief, not giving a name from the email,” explained Eckhardt. However it did raise some red flags once they dug a little deeper into the details. “It’s very tempting to take that order and run with it,” co-owner Mike Eckhardt told CTV News. The Ridge Social Eatery said they recently received an email from an unknown group about catering 150 COVID-19 health care volunteers.Ī request that seemed too good to be true. A restaurant in Ayr, Ontario wants to warn others in the industry about what they believe to be a fake catering scheme. ![]()
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