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These days, Tia Vandermeulen has the wheel deal on the menu for customers at Cats Socialhouse.

The popular Granville Island eatery now offers high-quality Abus Bordo folding locks for bicycle-riding customers to use while they stop for food.

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“People love it,” Vandermeulen said Monday following a collective effort at the island this summer to foil bike thieves. “They know their bike is safe and I find it is helping our business. If we didn’t have the locks they would go elsewhere.”

Cats Socialhouse is one of many businesses on Granville Island putting tougher measures to stop bike thieves. And the results are in.

Bike theft on the island is down 60 per cent from last year. And in August alone, bike theft was down 80 per cent. What was at least one stolen bike a day is now down to roughly one a week.

Besides businesses and restaurants offering free use of high-quality locks, Granville Island has had a free bike-valet service over the summer.