The famous snack bar Chez Hector, known for made popular The famous meatloaf is changing hands and will remain closed until July 29 before undergoing a major facelift.
The new owners, who also own the Frites & Bum restaurant, announced this on Thursday on social networks. While we wait to see the result of the renovation work, which is estimated to last about a month, a new logo has already been unveiled.
“We’re renovating the entire patio and dining room, fixing the lighting, refreshing the paint and removing part of the wall to rearrange the counter,” says Steeve Émond, one of the co-owners.
The exterior logos are also changed and replaced with the new one. This work represents an investment of approximately $150,000.
Snack bar Chez Hector will change its appearance and the logo will also be replaced with a new version. Catherine Bouchard
The colors of the Frites & Bum restaurant, black and yellow, are honored in the new version of the snack bar.
“We’re rejuvenating the brand, but we want to give the Hector a unique touch,” says Mr. Émond.
Rejuvenate your customers
He hopes to gain new customers and at the same time keep the good regular customers of the snack bar, which has existed since 1952.
“Our main goal is to rejuvenate the clientele, take Hector somewhere else and give him his flowers back,” he continues.
The new owners keep the original menu recipes, such as the meatloaf.
“The big change on the menu is the potatoes. Right now it’s already blanched potatoes, but now it’s going to be homemade potatoes. They are blanched in the morning and served the same day,” explains Mr Émond.
Revised prices
The other big change on the menu will be the prices. At the moment, given the price of the records, he considers it financially “impossible to get there”. For example, a “brunch” plate cost customers $9.99. The same plate now sells for around $14.99.
Chez Hector is a true Quebec institution. Additionally, all of Quebec experienced the snack during the Bastarache Commission hearings in 2010. Questioned as a witness, Jacques Tétrault — then press secretary for then-Attorney General Marc Bellemare — had no trouble recalling his visits to the company on Boulevard Louis-XIV .
“We stopped in the limo and ate at Hector Patates’s,” he’d mentioned, recalling the only times he’d had lunch with his boss, Mr. Bellemare.