RE:Restaurants...You don't need to talk about your wife, which may be true or made up, to say that the restaurant business is suffering. It is clearly evident that most are suffering. Few good restaurants I know in Hamilton, ON closed down. Take a stroll down Eglington area in Toronto and you will see the empty, closed restaurants and shops up for rent. Specially places that were new or almost making it before the crisis, or those with high operation cost are closing down. More places will open but it will take time for restaurant business to recover!