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"Le site Monitinerant.com répertorie 250 food trucks adhérents, qu'il aide notamment à trouver des places de stationnement. MonItinérant vient de boucler une levée de fonds d'amorçage de 300 000 euros auprès de business angels situés dans le nord de la France. La start-up fondée en 2012 géolocalise les food trucks pour permettre aux consommateurs de trouver rapidement ceux qui se trouvent autour d'eux. Surtout, Monitinerant.com offre divers services à ses 250 food trucks adhérents : outre la géolocalisation via un boîtier connecté au port diagnostic du véhicule (qui permet également de prévenir tous dysfonctionnements du camion et de couper le moteur en cas de vol), la start-up permet aux itinérants de trouver une place en moins de deux heures grâce à 500 emplacements gérés sur le site. Mon itinérant aide aussi les food trucks à participer à des évènements privatisant des commerces ambulants, et crée des partenariats pour proposer divers avantages à ses adhérents."

"In the wild and in the countryside, coyotes are not only bigger than red foxes, but they're also higher up the food chain. They tend to push weaker competitors out of their territories and will even kill to protect access to limited food sources. So while red foxes exist in the same general area and may even establish homes at the periphery of where coyotes live, they rarely venture into the other predators' domain. In cities, though, it looks like they're learning how to get along.  That's according to Drake's latest study published in the journal PLoS. Over the years, foxes and coyotes, like so many other wild species, have settled in the city, and they're inevitably here to stay. It's not uncommon to see them scampering across their neighborhoods. Some animal species have adapted to thrive amid the human-dominated landscape of high rises, fragmented green space, and heavy traffic. Now, at least in the case of these two wildlife predators, they may be changing their behavioral instincts to coexist with each other-thanks in part to the abundance of food."

"What few may realize is that the train serves two very important purposes: to deliver joy and the holiday spirit to thousands of riders and also to deliver food baskets to various charitable agencies throughout the city. The train began on the Blue Line in 1992 when a "Season's Greetings from the CTA" sign was placed on the front of an out-of-service train used to deliver food to various charities. Over the years, this holiday tradition has evolved from its modest and humble beginnings to a spectacular, joyous sight to see - in daytime or nighttime. Today, as the train pulls into each station, Santa waves to the boarding riders from his sleigh on an open-air flatcar carrying his reindeer and decorated holiday trees."

"Takeaway food delivery service Just Eat is going to start using robots to deliver meals to customers through a new trial. The trial, due to commence in the next few months, will see robots built by Starship Technologies cruising along the streets of London with Just Eat deliveries inside them. The self-driving robots - created by Skype cofounders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis - can only make deliveries to consumers that are relatively close by to the restaurant."

"We mainly know drive-thrus from fast food restaurants, but in London shoppers can now pick up their purchases while sitting in their car as department store Selfridges offers the first drive-thru service for luxury products. Through the store's the so-called Click & Collect service, customers can buy the items of their choice online and select a day to pick them up."

"heely's Café is a café franchise on wheels that wants to become a global brand with their Wheely's parked in cities all around the world. Starbucks be afraid, be very afraid."

"Waltham Forest's new zero-emissions delivery service aims to replace polluting trucks for local deliveries of food, online purchases and more"

"En deux : un kit de survie. À monter en fonction de ses habitudes alimentaires : une mignonnette de poivre, quelques cristaux de fleur de sel, une fiole d'huile d'olive, un flacon de sauce soja, un pot de miel, du piment, des conserves du placard et un kilo de farine. Cette épicerie de base ouvre la grande panoplie de ce que l'on pourrait appeler « la cuisine sauvage », elle-même constituée essentiellement de marinades, d'aliments crus, de consommables sucrés, de sandwiches, de sauces et bien d'autres choses encore."

"New York's Bushwick neighborhood might seem bike-saturated enough to many pedestrians and motorists, to say nothing of the popularity of the various bikeshare services around the world. However, those with their own bikes will agree that, while simpler than cars, biking has its own contingencies caused by weather, mechanical problems and human needs. That's where BikeStock steps in, offering essentials like locks, tubes, tools, seasonal items, ponchos, patch kits, food and drink to weary travelers."

"Bienvenue sur le blog entraindemanger.fr , lieu d'information et d'échange sur la restauration ferroviaire. Ce blog est ouvert pour vous informer des innovations et des évolutions de l'offre de service et de restauration à bord des trains et pour vous donner la parole. Notre volonté est de contribuer à faciliter le voyage et à le rendre agréable par des offres inédites et originales. Ce blog est porté par Cremonini Restauration, leader européen de la restauration et des services embarqués."

"Pour la première fois la restauration rapide a détrôné la restauration traditionnelle en France en 2012, représentant 54 % du marché total de la consommation alimentaire hors domicile. En parallèle des concepts classiques de snacking, sandwicheries et autres pizzerias, de nouvelles idées émergent, tandis que d'autres opèrent un retour remarqué. Découvrez les tendances 2014."

"Last year, the regional transit authority Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens launched an ad campaign to discourage rude behavior on the Paris subway. They used images of hens, warthogs, and sloths to scold riders for holding loud phone conversations, eating gross foods, and taking up too much space. When public shaming failed, RATP turned to an equally Parisian solution: charming PSAs that look straight out of the Belle Époque. The newly released ebook Manuel de Savoir-Vivre a l'usage du Voyageur Moderne names 12 essential, if slightly tongue-in-cheek, rules for getting by on the subway. Local graphic designer Marion Thomas-Mauro created some very French illustrations to accompany the rules, offering a slightly wacky take on the recommendations:"

"ldo Cancino Estrada, another Design Academy Eindhoven graduate who's work was showcased at this years Dutch Design Week, has made a social scenario in which street vending is turned into a creative platform for designers and street vendors to meet."

"Innover dans le recrutement, c'est possible ! La banque d'un monde qui change le prouve une fois de plus en lançant aujourd'hui un concept on ne peut plus fun et décalé : le « Job Truck » BNP Paribas. Le principe : un peu à la manière des food trucks auprès desquels vous commandez vos pizzas et hamburgers, BNP Paribas descendra dans la rue et proposera dans son camion itinérant spécialement aménagé pour l'occasion près de 400 offres de Conseillers en agence et Conseillers à distance, en complément des 1 000 postes déjà pourvus en 2014."

"Hire more cleaners to sanitize vehicles and stations frequently. Alex Garcia, an American urbanist researcher living in Taipei, told us that in the event of an outbreak, that city plans to disinfect all of its stations daily, the equipment that passengers touch every four hours, and trains every two hours if there is even a suspected case traveling by train. Seoul also uses drones to sprinkle disinfectant on hard-to-reach elevated places. Use noninvasive handheld or infrared thermometers to scan all passengers' temperature - a technique that is very common outside stores and offices in Asian cities and is now being employed to screen transit users in Taipei. Provide front-line workers with masks, gloves, and other protective equipment, especially those tasked with cleaning the system. New York City Transit cleaners have had to work without any PPE, which may have contributed to the elevated death rates among them. Require all passengers to cover their faces, and clearly communicate what is and is not allowed. Reusable cloth masks should be acceptable. Engage in small-scale capital projects to reduce infection spread, such as coating metal poles on trains with copper, which renders viruses inactive. (One Taipei-based food chain has so coated its doorknobs.) For the fast-growing number of operators who have been exposed to the virus already, ensure that they have the job protections and medical care that they require."

"Le géant américain déploie à l'échelle mondiale la livraison à domicile avec des solutions locales. Elle devrait être testée dans trois restaurants parisiens le 1er juillet. Attendu depuis plusieurs mois, le lancement d'un service de livraison à domicile en France par McDonald's se précise. Le numéro un de la restauration commerciale (4,7 milliards d'euros de volume d'affaires sous enseigne dans l'Hexagone à la fin 2016, pour 1.419 restaurants) reste néanmoins particulièrement discret sur ce sujet dans la mesure où l'heure est au "test"."

"Traffic circles are ubiquitous in France, accepted as safer than traditional intersections. But they have also become an emblem of the country's ailments, from urban sprawl to inequality. France loves its roundabouts. They are ubiquitous throughout the country, including in Abbeville, a city of about 25,000. Credit...Aurelien Breeden/The New York Times By Aurelien Breeden Dec. 25, 2019 ABBEVILLE, France - Every day, about 65,000 vehicles cruise through the center of Abbeville, passing by its Gothic church, City Hall and rows of red brick houses, with many drivers on their way to the English Channel about a dozen miles away. But they never stop for a red light. None exist in this town of about 25,000 people. Instead, drivers bank, swerve and loop their way through traffic circle after traffic circle. Their ubiquity in Abbeville is an extreme example of France's unabashed embrace of the roundabout, found in abundance throughout the country and widely credited for making roads safer and less clogged. Even in Abbeville, on a recent morning, workers in fluorescent orange vests and hard hats were breaking ground on yet another traffic circle, as cars were backed up by the construction. Roundabouts played a central role in the Yellow Vests protests, when demonstrators occupied hundreds of the nation's roundabouts, blocking traffic as a way to demonstrate against a despised fuel tax increase in particular and a growing sense of inequality in general. But France's relationship with them has in some ways soured, their very pervasiveness making them a convenient scapegoat for many of France's ills, real or perceived. Pierre Vermeren, a French historian writing in Le Figaro last year, said roundabouts were a "symbol of ugly France" and the "emblem of French malaise." There are no official statistics, but estimates of the total number of traffic circles in France range from 20,000 to 50,000. In the United States - about 18 times bigger and five