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A seven-step rollout for municipal teams: turn licences and inspections into a food asset inventory, verify it on a shared map, and keep it alive between planning cycles.
Anna Purna
Eligibility, amounts, and how to apply for Food Web kitchen credits in Nova Scotia — the $15,000 pool, up to $1,500 per renter, and what the credit does (and does not) cover.
Justin Andrews
Tippo is live. The tip management and splitting platform built for restaurants replaces the end-of-shift spreadsheet, and the first 99 users lock in $9.99 a month for life.
Keegan Francis
Twenty years of buying from Nova Scotia farmers taught Lil MacPherson that a strong food system is really about connection — and that finding each other is the hard part.
Lil MacPherson
Food Web has partnered with the Restaurants Association of Nova Scotia so licensed kitchens can earn from idle hours — with 20% off platform fees for RANS members, locked in for three years.
Justin Andrews
The nine-step setup for renting out a commercial kitchen: permits and lease permission, choosing renters, space and equipment rules, pricing, insurance, orientation and cleaning standards.
Justin Andrews
Canada has dozens of food asset maps, most of them funded once and left to decay. What our review of 40+ of them found, and why Food Web is building shared infrastructure instead.
Justin Andrews
We all eat — it is the one thing that binds us. So why are food systems more fragile than they have ever been, and what does sharing infrastructure have to do with it?
Keegan Francis
Why Food Web only earns on a completed booking, where the referral kickback actually comes from, how the tiers work, and the discount controls kitchen owners keep.
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