GarfieldEats

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GarfieldEats
Founded21 June 2019  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Defunct23 December 2021  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

GarfieldEats was a ghost restaurant themed after the Garfield franchise. It was founded in 2018 by Nathen Mazri and Pascal Haider. [1] The restaurant had locations in Dubai, U.A.E.; Toronto, Ontario; and London, Ontario. The Toronto location closed on November 9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a dispute over rent; [2] [3] an earlier dispute that year resulted in the restaurant closing temporarily. [4] It has since been reduced to a frozen foods brand, selling only "Big Cow" Lasagnas. [5]

GarfieldEats featured entries such as lasagna (the title character's favorite food), Garfield-shaped pizza, "Garficcinos", smoothies, and Garfield-shaped dark chocolate bars. [1] [6] [7] Customers could order food by using mobile phones attached to a restaurant's walls; or the GarfieldEats phone app for delivery. [6] The app also allowed customers to play games and to watch episodes of Garfield and Friends . [7]

The restaurant's slogan, "Love Me, Feed Me, Don't Leave Me", was based on the Garfield quote "Love me, feed me, never leave me"; Nathen Mazri was particularly inspired by its appearance in Garfield: The Movie . [8] Mazri and Garfield creator Jim Davis have described GarfieldEats as "entergaging" (a portmanteau of "entertaining" and "engaging"). [1] [9]

After continuous struggles to pay their landlord and general unprofitability, GarfieldEats shut down in the winter of 2021. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hagi, Sarah (June 18, 2019). "I Ate Lasagna and Garfuccinos at the New Garfield-Themed Restaurant in Toronto". Food & Wine . Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  2. ↑ Hughes, Josiah (November 12, 2020). "GarfieldEATS Has Closed". Exclaim! . Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  3. ↑ Doradea, Karen (November 13, 2020). "Toronto's GarfieldEATS closes its storefront due to overdue rent". Daily Hive . Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  4. ↑ Drum, Nicole (May 24, 2020). "Toronto's Garfield-Themed Restaurant Briefly Shuts Down". Comicbook.com . Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  5. ↑ Carlberg, Amy (November 13, 2020). "Toronto's most bizarre pizza joint has shut down". blogTO. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Baird, Scott (March 20, 2019). "North America's First Garfield-Themed Restaurant Coming to Toronto". Screen Rant . Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  7. 1 2 Bowman, Lisa (12 April 2018). "GarfieldEATS is a food delivery app for Garfield themed food in Dubai". Metro . Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  8. ↑ Hughes, Josiah (September 2, 2020). "GarfieldEATS Founder Nathen Mazri Says His New Web Series Is Inspired by Quibi". Exclaim! . Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Jim Davis says " In 40 years, no one has ever come to me with such a crazy idea like GarfieldEATS, the world's 1st entergaging Garfield's quick mobile restaurant app "". GarfieldEATSco. Jul 28, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2021– via Twitter.
  10. ↑ "Garfield pizza entrepreneur runs for PPC in Toronto Centre". TorontoToday.ca. 2025-03-25. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
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