日本進出も決まった ル・パン・コティディアン話題のベーカリーレストラン、ベルギーのブリュッセルに1990年一号店をオープン、いまでは世界17カ国132店に謎の急成長、そのお店、数々の写真!マッハッタン セントラルパーク店も準備中、ニューヨークでは ル・パン・コティディアンス-タイルのお店が いまではトレンドに!英語動画 3本 英見聞 Niknews Le Pain Quotidien to Operate Cafe at the Sheep Meadow (New York Times) 2010-3-05usa
“It is our dream to be in Central Park, and I think we were meant to be there,” said Jack F. Moran, a vice president for company, which serves fresh breads, soups, salads and sandwiches at 128 Belgian cafe-restaurants in 11 countries, 42 in the United States, including 20 in Manhattan.
The cafe would offer table service and seat 80 people indoor and outdoors, some at communal tables as in the chain’s other restaurants. There would also be a takeout menu “so people can get back to their Frisbees,” Mr. Moran said, in addition to “agrave la minute” cooked to order offerings.
Le Pain is seeking approval for a beer and wine license. Like its other cafes, the Central Park Le Pain will be “fundamentally a bakery, with bread, Viennoiseries, tartines, salads, organic beverages,” Mr. Moran said, “and, we hope, organic beer and wine.”
When the company kicked the tires last spring, “we saw a beautiful pitched roof and brick building, and that was it for us,” Mr. Moran said. “We’d like to go in and upgrade and renovate it, while preserving its historic character.” The company generally spends $650,000 to build out its cafes, and has committed from $500,000 to $1 million to the project in Central Park, “depending on what we find when we begin the work.”