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Since January 1, 2025, Emmanuelle Boccardo has been the new boss of “Mc Donald’s” in Valence-d’Agen (Tarn-et-Garonne). This former executive of the Newrest group also bought the Castelsarrasin restaurant franchise from Renaud Cambournac. The new boss expresses her happiness at having joined a company that highlights the integration of young people, the merit-based career path and inclusion.
At the start of 2025, the 35 employees of the “Mc Donald’s” in Valence-d’Agen (Tarn-et-Garonne) get to know their new boss. Toulouse-based Emmanuelle Boccardo bought the franchise that Renaud Cambournac had held since June 2014, the date on which the American restaurant brand established itself in the capital city of Deux-Rives.
This Wednesday, January 8, the old manager and the new one, visiting Valencia for a symbolic handover, felt the same emotion. “I have wanted to work for McDonald’s for a very long time. I have been a customer of this brand since the age of 13. When I was at Fermat high school, I often went to eat at the McDonald’s on the square du Capitole, the first to open in Toulouse”, confides Emmanuelle Boccardo.
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This Essec graduate could even have joined McDonald’s after a first professional experience in financial auditing. “I applied at the time but ultimately I was recruited in 2000 by the Newrest group as financial director. I worked there for 21 years. When I left Newrest in 2021, I wanted to launch myself into a new project presented itself. McDonald’s for me has always been a reference in terms of marketing, innovation, tools, customer approach and I really like them. process of integrating young people, of a merit-based course, Inclusion is also part of their values.”
On Sundays, we are often the only restaurant open in Valence.
For Renaud Cambournac, who “is at retirement age but still full of projects”, it is time to retrace “a long journey” within the American company. “I returned to the McDonald’s France headquarters in 1986 to take care of development and construction. It was I who opened the first McDonald’s restaurant in Africa, in 1992 in Morocco. In 2004, the brand offered to buy the Castelsarrasin restaurant. It was there that I learned the franchise business and in 2014, we opened this restaurant in Valence. has a loyal clientele, residents of Deux-Rives, Pays de Serres or Lomagne but also people passing through. We are open 364 days a year because I used to close on December 25. , we are often the only restaurant open in Valence.”
Emmanuelle Boccardo follows in the continuity of her predecessor. “The transmission was very easy, very fluid. I will work with the teams to energize and get people to come even more.” In Valence, the new boss will be able to rely on the director Thierry Anepadeatchy, the maintenance manager Stéphane Barraud without forgetting Luc Benassac, supervisor of the two restaurants in Castelsarrasin and Valence.
