GarfieldEats

{{Short description|Canadian ghost restaurant}}

{{Infobox company

| name = GarfieldEats

| homepage = {{URL|www.garfieldeats.com}}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}

}}

GarfieldEats was a ghost restaurant themed after the Garfield franchise. It was founded in 2018 by Nathen Mazri and Pascal Haider.{{Cite web|last=Hagi|first=Sarah|date=June 18, 2019|title=I Ate Lasagna and Garfuccinos at the New Garfield-Themed Restaurant in Toronto|url=https://www.foodandwine.com/travel/garfield-eats-toronto-restaurant|accessdate=July 31, 2021|website=Food & Wine}} 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;{{Cite web|last=Hughes|first=Josiah|date=November 12, 2020|title=GarfieldEATS Has Closed|url=https://exclaim.ca/film/article/garfieldeats_has_closed|accessdate=July 31, 2021|website=Exclaim!}}{{Cite web|last=Doradea|first=Karen|date=November 13, 2020|title=Toronto's GarfieldEATS closes its storefront due to overdue rent|url=https://dailyhive.com/toronto/garfieldeats-toronto-store-closure|accessdate=July 31, 2021|website=Daily Hive}} an earlier dispute that year resulted in the restaurant closing temporarily.{{Cite web|last=Drum|first=Nicole|date=May 24, 2020|title=Toronto's Garfield-Themed Restaurant Briefly Shuts Down|url=https://comicbook.com/irl/news/garfield-themed-restaurant-briefly-closes-toronto-coronavirus/|accessdate=July 31, 2021|website=Comicbook.com}} It has since been reduced to a frozen foods brand, selling only "Big Cow" Lasagnas.{{Cite web|last=Carlberg|first=Amy|date=November 13, 2020|title=Toronto's most bizarre pizza joint has shut down|url=https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2020/11/garfield-eats-toronto-shut-down/|accessdate=August 30, 2021|website=blogTO}}

GarfieldEats featured entries such as lasagna (the title character's favorite food), Garfield-shaped pizza, "Garficcinos", smoothies, and Garfield-shaped dark chocolate bars.{{Cite web|last=Baird|first=Scott|date=March 20, 2019|title=North America's First Garfield-Themed Restaurant Coming to Toronto|url=https://screenrant.com/first-garfield-themed-restaurant-toronto/|accessdate=July 31, 2021|website=Screen Rant}}{{Cite web|last=Bowman|first=Lisa|date=12 April 2018|title=GarfieldEATS is a food delivery app for Garfield themed food in Dubai|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/12/food-delivery-app-sells-garfield-themed-cuisine-7462293/|accessdate=July 31, 2021|website=Metro}} Customers could order food by using mobile phones attached to a restaurant's walls; or the GarfieldEats phone app for delivery. The app also allowed customers to play games and to watch episodes of Garfield and Friends.

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.{{Cite web|last=Hughes|first=Josiah|date=September 2, 2020|title=GarfieldEATS Founder Nathen Mazri Says His New Web Series Is Inspired by Quibi|url=https://exclaim.ca/film/article/garfieldeats_founder_nathen_mazri_discusses_his_quibi-inspired_web_series_garfuccinos_and_angry_bugs_bunny_fans|accessdate=July 31, 2021|website=Exclaim!}} Mazri and Garfield creator Jim Davis have described GarfieldEats as "entergaging" (a portmanteau of "entertaining" and "engaging").{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=Jul 28, 2019|title=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 "|url=https://twitter.com/garfieldeatsco/status/1155663194658103296|access-date=July 31, 2021|website=|publisher=GarfieldEATSco|via=Twitter}}

After continuous struggles to pay their landlord and general unprofitability, GarfieldEats shut down on Christmas Eve, 2021.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}