Winnipeg Free Press | October 18, 2021

For several decades Shindico Inc. has been working at populating Winnipeg with restaurant and retail offerings up and down the market after developing and managing dozens of strip malls, power centres and every manner of retail development.

With traditional bricks and mortar retail faced with increasing disruption and construction and occupancy costs going up, restaurant development also has to be more measured than might have been the case at other points in the economic cycles.

Winnipeggers will always get excited with new restaurant brands moving into the city even though the city’s hard-done-by complex, believing we are missing out on the latest and greatest, is really a thing of the past. In fact, Winnipeg is becoming known as an affordable market to break into and we’ll be the first city in Western Canada to have a P.F. Chang’s.

Michael Stronger, senior vice-president retail and investment and Brennan Pearson, vice-president, ICI (industrial, commercial investment) properties at Shindico explain the presence of some of the new restaurant brands they have helped locate in Winnipeg.

Fast Fired by Carbone — and by fast, they mean 90 seconds.

This new quick service iteration of the popular Winnipeg pizza restaurant has just opened its second location in Winnipeg with three more on the way after launching the concept in Brandon earlier this year.

Shindico is representing them in plans to take the concept national. A Yorkton, Sask., location is lined up and will open soon.

Featuring a large coal-fired pizza oven as the centrepiece of the stores, Pearson said Fast Fired by Carbone is part of the experiential restaurant trend enjoyed by millennials who are now the official target market of just about every type of retail vendor.