Why it matters: when the McDonald’s here closed in 2019 and made its 77 staff redundant, assistant manager and staff rep Kamel Guemari led former employees, neighbours and local associations in taking the building over during the March 2020 lockdown to hand out food parcels in a corner of the quartiers Nord that badly needed them. It runs today as fast social food – a working burger joint that doubles as a mutual-aid platform and exists to get people back into work – and the City of Marseille backed the purchase of the building in 2021 to make it permanent. Order a Maous Costo or a Faim de l’Espace. Closed Sundays, and it sits well north of the Vieux-Port out in the 14th, so go deliberately rather than hoping to pass by.
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214 Chemin de Sainte-Marthe, 13014 · fast social food burger joint · all year, closed Sundays