It’s a purchasing power operation in favor of the greediest.
To fight against inflation which is affecting French households, the restaurant reservation site TheFork is launching a new edition of its eponymous festival this Thursday.
The principle is simple: from February 15 to March 31, more than 1,000 restaurants throughout France, including 257 in Paris, offer their usual menu at -50%.
Due to inflation, prices have soared in the catering sector in recent years (+16% between December 2018 and December 2023 according to Eurostat*).
“With the TheFork Festival, we reiterate our commitment to making gastronomy accessible to all, while helping our restaurant partners, also affected by inflation,” explains Damien Rodière, Managing Director of TheFork Western Europe.
Addresses among those in TheFork’s Top 100
According to him, previous editions of the Festival have enabled professionals in the catering sector to “triple their clientele over the period and increase their margin by 2.5”.
To benefit from the operation, simply connect to the TheFork.fr application or website and choose the restaurant in which you wish to reserve a table.
Reductions are therefore taken into account directly upon booking.
Among the participating restaurants, several are part of the Top 100 that TheFork revealed a few weeks ago, such as Les Rupins (n°1), the Auberge de Venise Montparnasse (n°2) and Les Petites Dalles (n° 5).
*Calculation established according to the index provided by EuroStat - based on an average ticket of €15, €20 and €30 between 2018 and 2023