One last thing...
Franchise turnkey costs are $690,000.
https://www.humptys.com/franchise-in...nchising-faqs/
These decisions to shut a location are not being taken lightly and reflect some people losing their life savings as they are forced to sell for pennies on the dollar at the bottom of the market rather than dump more of their savings (mortgage) out the door.
Maybe that doesn't matter as much to some because they are business owners and the assumption from the iggy's of this province is that we can all afford it anyway. Never mind that my companies like mine have an ownership group is half unemployed now, the others are making <1/5th of their former incomes and we all have kids and mortgages, or are former refugees, or are close to but not as close as they thought to retirement.