Quebec Restaurants Are Reopening, but Some Former Workers Don’t Plan to Go Back

Milovan Danielou, a former cook at Grumman 78 poses outside the closed down restaurant in Montreal, Jan. 28, 2022. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes.

MONTREAL—Restaurants in Quebec will be allowed to reopen Monday for the first time in more than a month, but some former workers say they won’t be looking for new jobs in the industry.

Milovan Danielou said he decided to start looking for a new job during the province’s second closure of restaurant dining rooms in the fall of 2020, when his then-employer, taco restaurant Grumman ‘78, closed its main location permanently.