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Here, everyone works 40 hours a week, for between 2,000 and 2,500 euros net

The restaurant wakes up at 5 a.m.

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Key facts

  • Here, everyone works 40 hours a week, for between 2,000 and 2,500 euros net. It also shows the establishment's wage routine, based on a 40-hour week…
  • The restaurant wakes up at 5 a.m. The first customers are often truck drivers, who have breakfast before hitting the road again for very long hours.
  • A France Télévisions team set up in the establishment for two days. Each week, a face from the channel goes out to meet the French before the…

Here, everyone works 40 hours a week, for between 2,000 and 2,500 euros net. It also shows the establishment's wage routine, based on a 40-hour week and a net pay range.

The restaurant wakes up at 5 a.m. The first customers are often truck drivers, who have breakfast before hitting the road again for very long hours.

A France Télévisions team set up in the establishment for two days. Each week, a face from the channel goes out to meet the French before the presidential election.

Like them, truckers complain of a difficult way of life, which sometimes costs them their family.

Stopping in the evening at a truck stop, catching up with friends, putting the world to rights, sharing an aperitif or a hot meal is often an immense comfort.

The report paints a portrait of a place of passage and pause, between dawn breakfast and the evening meal.

The immersion links the restaurant's rhythm to that of the drivers, forced into long hours on the road.

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