In order to contribute to the economic reactivation and boost the businesses, and in a work hand in hand with the businesses, Rappi incorporates 7 restaurants in the Plaza La Perseverancia in Bogotá into its platform.
Now the users of Rappi in Bogotá will be able to enjoy the gastronomic offer of 7 restaurants in the La Perseverancia market square through its platform, without leaving their homes and at their fingertips. Through the restaurants button available in Rappi, users will be able to enjoy the traditional dishes of Tolú, El Primo, La cucharita, Las Verde del Huila and La Esquina de Mary, El buen gusto del Pacifico and La Piazola, restaurants located in the emblematic square.
The Solidarity Menu movement, with its allies: the Foundation Take a Child by the Hand, Colombia Cuida Colombia, the Association of Food Banks of Colombia, Ábaco, Coca Cola, Rappi and Sierra Nevada trained the owners and workers of these restaurants to enter this digital ecosystem, and implement its home system with all biosafety protocols, with the aim of boosting businesses and contributing to economic reactivation.
“The pandemic has not gone away and the critical economic situation it generated has not ended either. The Horeca sector (Hotels, Restaurants and Cafeterias) continues to be one of the most affected by the lack of income and low sales and for us it has been a great experience to be able to accompany them in these training sessions so that they can operate safely at through the app and thus see an increase in their income. Additionally, it is a pride to continue preserving that gastronomic tradition of the city, a great cultural heritage of Bogotá such as the Plaza de La Perseverancia. ”, Affirms Emiliano Moscoso, forerunner of the Solidarity Menu movement and owner and founder of Sierra Nevada.
For Matías Laks, general manager of Rappi for Colombia, the incorporation of these restaurants in the square is a reaffirmation of the company’s commitment to the country’s industry and economy. ¨ We are very proud to be able to add 7 restaurants in La Perseverancia market place to our portfolio. At Rappi, we continually seek to be an ally for thousands of businesses, who leverage us to offer their offer and reach more users every day. We hope that more restaurants from all the market places of Bogotá will join in and can find in us a way to continue operating and taking their dishes to Colombian homes¨.
The ¨Cocinatón Solidaria¨ in the market place La Perseverancia
Through the project ¨Cocinatón Solidaria¨, promoted by the Solidarity Menu movement, with its allies: the Foundation Take a child by the hand, Colombia Cuida Colombia, the Association of Food Banks of Colombia, Abaco, Coca Cola Rappi, Sierra Nevada and with the support of the Institute for the Social Economy – IPES, 15 restaurants with 6 market places in Bogotá prepared a total of 4,000 units of rice with chicken, which were delivered to vulnerable communities, thus impacting the nutrition of 4,000 Bogota families . This event marked the launch of the button for the Plaza de La Perseverancia in Rappi.
Follow the news of El Espectador on Google NewsThe four market squares that worked simultaneously to achieve this contribution were: La Perseverancia market place, Kennedy market place, October 12 market place, Samper Mendoza, in Los Mártires, La Concordia and Las Cruces .
About Solidarity Menu
The Solidarity Menu project began in March of this year as a solidarity response of citizen initiative to the health emergency. It took much more force with the participation of Rappi as a platform through which people bought a menu from any of the 50 allied restaurants that prepared the food and then delivered it to a social leader or organization, chosen by the Toma un Niño Foundation. de la Mano, who was in charge of bringing food to the population that needed it.
Little by little, more restaurants and organizations such as Coca Cola, the Association of Food Banks of Colombia were added through the EatCloud platform, Terpel, Colombia Cuida Colombia and Coursera among others, which helped to make the Solidario Menu proposal each once had more strength and recognition at the national and international level.
Currently and 7 months after the start of the campaign, the Solidarity Menu has delivered more than 35,000 meals to families and vulnerable communities in Bogotá in towns such as Suba, Usme, San Cristóbal, Kennedy, Bosa, Fontibón, Engativá, Mártires, Ciudad Bolívar and Rafael Uribe including indigenous, Afro and migrant population.
About the foundation Take a Child by the Hand
The Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1952 based in suba that serves children and adolescents between the ages of 6 and 17 in vulnerable conditions. We have been providing support to the locality for more than 50 years and focusing on well-being and the need to create safe spaces for non-formal learning and the use of free time from play, experiential education, reading and writing with a strong conviction on the importance of food in the development of children and adolescents. Therefore, the Foundation has joined all its efforts to continue guaranteeing the beneficiaries and their families a healthy diet and support from play, reading and writing.