In Toulouse, Les Tabliers Solidaires deliver meals prepared exclusively by women as part of an integration project.
They deliver their ready meals to companies and individuals using downgraded and local products.
This job allows women to take the time to find their way to ensure their professional retraining.
While the chef, Violaine, is preparing a caramel, Seda, Barbara and Nadine are busy in the kitchen peeling and cutting up downgraded fruits that have not found takers because they are too ugly.
Four days a week, these three women go to the kitchen of the Tabliers Solidaires, a somewhat innovative integration project based in Launaguet, north of Toulouse.
"We are a solidarity caterer, 100% feminine and eco-responsible", summarizes Nathalie Barbazanges, its founder.
Unlike the dark kitchens – these ghost kitchens dedicated to the delivery of food via online platforms – within this association created last year, we take the time to do, we do not chain orders to the shovel.
Nor is the objective to train these women in professional integration for a catering trade.
But to help them find their way.
While making their work possible, thanks to schedules adapted to mothers.
Accompanied in parallel
“Some have never worked, others found themselves unemployed late in life.
Here, they regain confidence, they work as a team and are accompanied by an integration counselor who comes to meet them every week to see how their project is progressing, encourage them to find what will please them,” explains Nathalie Barbazangues, who has worked for several years on the empowerment of women in the hospitality sector.
After having worked in the field of architecture, at 57, Nadine aims to become a florist.
She would never have imagined one day landing in the kitchen, but when it was offered to her, she said to herself “why not”.
“When we are in professional retraining, we are asked to choose a job in one week.
Here, we don't have the pressure, we work while having time to do our CVs, business surveys, which allows us to move forward, ”she says while cutting her kiwis.
Thanks to the Solidarity Aprons, "they learn to make technical sheets, calculate costs or even create recipes", explains Violaine de Beler, creator of La Belle Intendance, a nomadic caterer who has joined the project.
So many things that they can reuse in their future jobs.
Catering for companies and individuals
At first, the manager was afraid of being confronted with the technical difficulties of the employees.
But his doubts were quickly dispelled.
“These are things you learn.
Immediately, they were motivated, I set up small challenges to achieve a bit like in
Top Chef
, it stimulates them.
And every Thursday, they offer a dish, like Barbara's Ukrainian ravioli.
The interest is not that it's just my cooking”, assures the young woman who cut her teeth at L'Atelier des Chefs.
And makes sure to cook local products as much as possible, from short circuits.
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Dishes that can then be put on the menu and ordered by customers, both businesses and individuals at affordable prices.
The members of the Solidarity Aprons may thus be called upon to provide service or to deliver orders.
No question of using platforms.
“We choose to do the delivery ourselves, it's more expensive, but it's a political choice.
We are in compliance with our desire to act on well-being and that is one more string to their bow", assures Nathalie Barbazanges for whom the clients of the association, in addition to eating well, are doing a "militant act ".
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