At 12 noon, at 6 pm or even at midnight… Now you can stop and eat at any time in the village of Massiac (Cantal). A restaurant with a unique concept, “H24, local meals”, opened last Friday next to the A75 motorway, as reported the parisian: This one is fully automated and serverless.
“We’re in a very rural area,” Marvin Lassalas, H24’s production manager and business school friend of Pierre, the director’s son, told BFMTV.com.
An “alternative” to restaurants
At H24, no problem: customers can freely enter and eat on site thanks to the 36 “gourmet ticket offices” made available by Christine Boyer Hajfani and her husband, a couple running the family-owned VillageFani network of hotel establishments. Every day, chef François Cherbetian prepares around eight dishes in the kitchen, which he then vacuum packs before placing them in refrigerated cabinets inside the restaurant.
Salads, fish, local meat or even tapas… On the menu, the options are varied. All the customer has to do is pay using the terminal, heat their food in a microwave and sit down to taste local dishes, cooked as much as possible with local products. Before having to dispose of themselves, and sort their waste.
A chef who works according to your schedule
To date, “H24” has attracted almost forty onlookers. If the managers feared “a lack of coexistence”, they say they are “surprised” by the attitude of the clients who seem to sympathize with each other and help each other to tame the concept.
Christine Boyer Hajfani and her husband had to invest in two large machines to get this innovative project off the ground: one to vacuum the dishes without adding preservatives, the other to store these dishes on cold racks. The cook is delighted. At 55, he no longer has to endure the stress of duty between noon and two. He can now work at the time that suits him best.
A similar concept, a distributor of gourmet dishes cooked on site, had already opened last February in Ruelle, in the Charente. Thanks to a machine, it also allowed you to buy your dishes at any time of the day, with the only difference that it was not possible to eat them on the spot.
Source: BFM TV
