Once Manitoba's most successful homegrown restaurant chain, Grapes is down to its last location.
The 30-year-old institution closed down its Pembina Highway store last month, leaving Winnipeg without a Grapes location for the first time since 1980. All that's left is a single restaurant in Thompson.
Grapes is far from the only restaurant to have hit hard times. Scott Jocelyn, executive director of the Manitoba Restaurant and Foodservices Association, said 500 restaurants have been shuttered in the province over the past decade and he's hoping no more than 50 shut down in 2010.
from Western Investor, September 2010
