the installation of a new dark kitchen worries the residents
Take-out and dark kitchens are booming and the phenomenon has accelerated further with the Covid-19 pandemic. The new dark kitchen Popafood, installed in Toulouse, worries the residents of the Chalets district.
A few years, the take-out sale continues to progress from the restaurateurs. Dark kitchens or virtual restaurants are booming and the phenomenon has accelerated further with the Covid-19 pandemic.
These are fully digitized restaurants that only work with home delivery platforms.
These new online restaurant concepts are highly appreciated by operators because they require very little investment.
In this context, the multi-brand restaurant Popafood, located on avenue Honoré-Serres near the Chalets district in Toulouse, will offer twelve different cuisine brands.
But for the inhabitants and the association of the Chalets Roquelaine district, this is not very good news. This mThe economic model does not reassure local residents and the president of the association, Marie-Laure Ichanjou.
“The association aims to safeguard the living environment and in particular the development of social ties in the neighborhood, this project is really not likely to develop social ties and preserve the living environment”, emphasizes Marie-Laure Ichanjou.
About 50 to 80 meals will be produced per day and per kitchen, that will make 600 to 900 meals produced per day, you can imagine the number of scooters that will land here. They will produce noise pollution, the project leaders will transform a restaurant into twelve industrial kitchens.
Marie-Laure Ichanjou, president of the Chalets Roquelaine neighborhood association
Noise pollution but also odor nuisance are to be feared with twelve kitchens in the same place. But the co-founder of Popafood, Eric Descargues, denies it. “We have put in a whole filtration system which makes it possible to reduce odors to a minimum and deliveries for raw materials are limited to the day and are made behind the building”.
We understand that there may be concerns and for the moment, they are unfounded. They are lucky to have a multi-brand restaurant in the neighborhood.
Eric Descargues, co-founder Popafood
Other difficulties will occur, according to Philippe Albafouille, resident and resident of the district for 60 years. “Parking, we can no longer find a parking space in the evening. There is a residence parking lot, we pay a badge each year to park and we are not sure of having a space in the evening.”
All places are occupied by people who do not pay for the badge because they are at their place of work. No additional parking spaces have been provided.
Philippe Albafouille, resident
Residents fear that their shopping streets will turn into a succession of closed storefronts. Despite this, many dark kitchens and other dark stores have become part of the downtown landscape.