Black vest over white shirt, tie and perfectly polished shoes, Nathan Kaidi is already in the starting blocks.
Waiter at Procope, the legendary Parisian café-restaurant in Saint-Germain-des-Prés (6th arrondissement), the 23-year-old young man is preparing to participate, this Sunday, March 24, in the legendary waiters' race.
“The challenge is to complete a loop while walking quickly with a tray containing a cup of coffee, a glass of water and a croissant, without spilling anything.
I hope to win the event,” he confides.
This legendary event, imagined for the first time in 1914 in Paris, is indeed making its return to the streets of the capital this Sunday, after thirteen years of absence and four months before the Olympic Games.
Renamed the “café race”, the event, co-organized by the Paris town hall and Eau de Paris, the municipal authority, will take place over a 2 km course in the Marais.
300 participants are expected on the starting line, in front of City Hall, at 10 a.m.
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