A former McDonald's in the northern neighborhoods wants to relaunch a cooperative

McDonald's in Saint-Barthélémy, the epicenter of solidarity in the northern districts of Marseille.

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What if a McDonalds became a “fast social food”?

Stopped since its judicial liquidation in December 2019, requisitioned and since transformed into a food aid platform, the former McDonald's of Saint-Barthélémy, in the northern districts of Marseille, wants to relaunch its hamburgers, but in the form of 'a Scic, a cooperative society of collective interest, which would manage the site.

The objective is to make it a "restaurant for social and professional integration", according to Fathi Bouraoua, former president of the Marseille branch of Emmaus and kingpin of this new project.

Former employees of the restaurant, residents and associations of these deprived neighborhoods in the north of Marseille, institutional actors, companies and private foundations: all would be represented in this cooperative, specifies Fathi Bouaroua, during a press conference on Friday in the premises of the 'old "McDo".

A training center for fast food

While waiting for this SCIC, an association has been created, the APRES (Association of prefiguration for an economic and social restaurant), chaired by Fathi Bouaroua.

It remains to find an agreement with the leaders of McDonald's France, owners of the premises and the business, and to obtain the support of the local authorities, the town hall of Marseille in particular.

"The idea is that this future fast-food becomes a kind of training center for fast food", explains Patrick Nedelec, honorary president of APRES and former general delegate of the FACE foundation, the Foundation for action against exclusion.

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