BeaverTails

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BeaverTails Pastry
Queues de Castor pâtisserie
Company typePrivate
IndustryFood
Founded1978; 47 years ago (1978), in Killaloe, Ontario
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec
,
Canada
ProductsPastry
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BeaverTails is a Canadian

restaurant chain, specializing in pastries known as BeaverTails, that is operated by BeaverTails Canada Inc. Its namesake products are fried dough pastries, individually hand-stretched to resemble beaver's tails, with various toppings added on the pastry.[1]

The chain originated in Killaloe, Ontario in 1978 and opened its first permanent store in Ottawa two years later. By 2018, it had 140 franchise and licence locations in six countries: Canada (the Maritimes, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec, where the franchise is called Queues de Castor), the United States (New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Arkansas and Utah),[2] the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, France, and Japan.[3]

Company history

BeaverTails began when Grant and Pam Hooker turned their family recipe for fried dough into a corporate business. They sold their first pastries at the

Byward Market in Ottawa.[5] In 1987, Pino Di Ioia accepted a summer position as the manager of the BeaverTails location at La Ronde. In 2002, along with his wife and twin brother, they took over the management of BeaverTails.[6]

Products

BeaverTail

A classic BeaverTails pastry with cinnamon and sugar

The BeaverTail is a

hotdogs.[7]

"BeaverTails" and "Queues de Castor" have been registered as trademarks since 1988 by BeaverTails Canada Inc and its affiliated companies.[8]

In the media

Then-US President Barack Obama after purchasing a BeaverTail at the ByWard Market location in Ottawa on 19 February 2009

BeaverTails received media attention in the US and Canada when it was served at the Canadian

Ottawa International Airport to buy a BeaverTails pastry. One variation of the product, a classic cinnamon and sugar pastry with maple flavoured eyes and a Nutella O for Obama, was called the "Obamas Tail", in honour of the visit.[9]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-470-06931-8
    . Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  2. ^ "US Shops". BeaverTails. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Store list". www.beavertails.com. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  4. ^ Phillips, Caroline (10 April 2023). "Up Close: The story of Grant and Pam Hooker is truly a 'tail' of giving and taking". Ottawa Business Journal. Ottawa, Ontario. Archived from the original on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  5. ^ Kubacki, Maria (14 February 2006). "Deep-fried icon of the valley as Canadian as ... the beaver". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  6. ^ "About | BeaverTails". beavertails.com. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Products | BeaverTails". beavertails.com. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  8. ^ "CANADIAN TRADE-MARK DATA - application no. 0686841". Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  9. ^ "CTV Ottawa - Obama stops to shop in Ottawa's Byward Market". Ottawa.ctv.ca. 20 February 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
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