After the fire that devastated the Eden restaurant in Castres this morning, the head nurse Alexandra and the boss Sophie Cauquil feel the blow. But the team remains united and intends to recover as it did during the previous fire.
As a symbol, all employees, even those who did not work, were gathered in front of the restaurant, destroyed by flames. L’Éden, run for 13 years by Sophie Cauquil, figure of Place Jean Jaurès, will be closed for several weeks and here there are customers, mostly regulars, deprived of morning coffee or the “canteen” at lunchtime. lunch. A new ordeal for the ten employees and the boss, after experiencing a disaster of the same kind a few years ago.
“It ‘sa more blow what we receive … But we have always had a close-knit team and we will remain until the end. We will try to get up as usual”, loses Sophie Cauquil, disoriented this morning, in front of her blackened Eden. The Castrese shopkeeper has received the support of other restaurateurs, such as Aïssa Guendouz, who was also the victim of a fire a month ago and who yesterday reopened O Victoria, a few meters from Place Jean Jaurès.
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A little earlier in the morning, the day began as a usual Wednesday. A handful of customers on the terrace and Alexandra, the room manager who goes back and forth to serve them. “I was with a customer in front of the restaurant. The cook came down shouting” There is fire, there is fire! “Says the one who thought about a bad joke. Only above the bar,” I saw him starting to take The cook came back up and tried to put out the fire but it was spreading rapidly. I yelled at him to get off. In two minutes everything caught fire “, continues Alexandra, who a few minutes later found her calm again. Four employees at work.
“We love our job, we’re all here for our boss Sophie, to support her”
The spectacular scene has not escaped anyone in the square. “It exploded so much that we all had to take a step back. We went down fast, it picked up speed.” Affected but not sunk, the employees remain united: “We are feeling the shock, we are in shock, disgusted. We love our job, Sophie our boss, we are all there for her, to support her.”
With the aim of finding customers in their Garden of Eden as quickly as possible.
