Employees managing the Les Pyramides restaurant at the La Crèche road center, Yannick and Elsa Beaubois remain worried after the meeting held this Wednesday, December 4, 2024. Christelle Abatut, president of the Deux-Sèvres chamber of commerce and industry , had the initiative for this meeting while the future of the establishment is in the spotlight. In addition to Yannick and Elsa Beaubois, the owner of the establishment, Patrick Fontan, the mayor of La Crèche, Laetitia Hamot, and the president of the community of communes of Haut Val de Sèvre, Daniel Jollit, were invited.
“The fear of losing our jobs within six months is still there”commented Yannick Beaubois after the meeting.
Starting point of the case, the decision of the CCI to sell SécuriTpark, a secure facility with 90 spaces intended for truckers, located at the intersection of the A83 and the A10. The future buyer, the Trucks'nB company, intends to extend this closed and paid area. If he lost his free parking, the restaurant would no longer be viable, fears Yannick Beaubois. Les Pyramides, ten employees and two apprentices, serve 200 meals per day. Its clientele: truckers but also employees of the economic activity zone, residents of La Crèche, the associative world.
The takeover of SécuriTpark is planned for March 2025. Discussions are underway between the owner of the restaurant and the company Trucks'nB. The investor was not invited to the December 4 meeting. The owner was unable to get there.
“As president of the chamber of commerce and industry, I will obviously be present to support the companies on this issue, the restaurant and also the buyer who will develop the activity”declares Christelle Abatut joined by the NR after the meeting.
The president of the CCI is confident about the outcome of the case: “There will be other meetings and we will find a solution. » The president of the community of communes of Haut Val de Sèvre, present this December 4, also intends for another meeting to be held “to calm things down”.
A petition in support of the restaurant, posted online on November 23, had exceeded 4,000 signatories in less than a week. There are 5,300, plus more than 300 signatures left at the restaurant itself.
