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CULTURE, COMMUNITY, SUSTAINABILITY
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WHO WE ARE
Bread & Butter is a Vancouver Island based peer-driven collective aimed at providing resources and tools to hospitality based business owners in B.C. for improved levels of performance, peer accountability, learning & growth, political advocacy along with guidelines for operating businesses and managing lifestyles that are meaningful and lasting.
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We believe that the hospitality industry has not been working for all stakeholders for a long time and that the cracks have been blown wide open by the COVID-19 crises leaving most business owners struggling to survive and concerned about the future. We can work together to develop a better way forward with the creation of a progressive community committed to wholistic improvement as our foundation.
Together we can work to make significant change to our industry and our lives.
Our
Vision
To foster the long-term growth and sustainability of a healthy independent hospitality community that provides fair return on investment for owners, viable compensation for our valued employees, admired company cultures and community engagement.
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WHO IS BREAD & BUTTER
FOR?
Independent, locally owned food & beverage businesses – restaurant, café, producer, grower, craft brewery, distillery and/or winery operation
Those wanting to run a more successful, profitable and lasting business
Business owners keen to share openly – about their business, new ideas, solutions, findings, successes and failures
Only those willing to adhere to the Bread & Butter organizational tenets
Owners striving to follow Human Resource best practices including building an admired culture and improving overall compensation for their people – enhancing wage/salary guidelines, offering extended health benefits, etc.
Owners wanting to lessen the environmental impact of their business
Think this might be you?
Our
Community
Founding members represent a cross section of
high-quality, local, independent owner-operators and include owners of 2% Jazz, Pizzeria Prima Strada,
Hey Happy, Bodega/Tapa Bar, Foo/Part & Parcel, Zambri’s/Big Wheel Burger, Roast/La Pizza & La Pasta, Table Nine Coaching, and representatives from Camosun College’s Culinary Program.
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Membership is open to local, independent hospitality and related business owners wanting to participate in an openly supportive group of like-minded operators sharing ideas, finding solutions and improving the quality of both our businesses and the industry.