Prix de la Solidarité

Black Sheep is a group of Hong Kong restaurants employing 1000 people, with French, Italian, Thai and Indian restaurants among the 26 locations. The two founders Syed Asim Hussain and Christopher Mark, reacted quickly to the pandemic by adapting their safety guidelines and hygiene protocols. Early 2020 they published the results of their work online. Since then, the Covid Playbook has been translated into four languages and adopted in 30 countries. It is regularly updated, and could have been a publishing phenomenon, but the choice was made to maintain it as a service available to restaurateurs around the world: the Covid Playbook and all its translations - including French - remain free.

This initiative from Guillaume Gomez, head chef at the Elysée Palace, journalist Stéphane Méjanes, and the Paris Hospitals trust is one of the finest examples of community spirit and solidarity. Its purpose? To serve a decent hot meal to hospital staff. 776 chefs have cooked for 146 public hospitals and 119 private hospitals, serving 104,767 meals. The produce is supplied by wholesalers from the Rungis International Market and the TipToque website handles logistics.