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5.0Restaurant
The Pickle Barrel, a Toronto Jewish-deli-turned-casual-dining chain founded in 1971, was acquired in 2017 by Cara Operations (renamed Recipe Unlimited in 2018) — the same Fairfax Financial-linked org already used for Swiss Chalet, Harvey's, and other brands in this dataset.
Ownership
Parent company
Recipe Unlimited Corporation (Fairfax Financial Holdings)
Nationality
Canadian
Voting control
100% Canadian (exact)
Operating model
corporate
Last verified
2026-09-18