Restaurant Fee Supports Local in Quebec

MAY 2, 2008 - I run a small restaurant in Wakefield, Quebec, called Soupçon. I started something called a green fee, where everyone pays $1 extra to help me support local food as much as possible. The idea was not to just raise my prices but to make people aware that it costs just a bit more, and that I don’t have fish or seafood on the menu because I haven’t found any that are local or, at the very least, eco-friendly farmed.

It’s amazing the response people have - loads