About Us
Supporting inclusion and access to food security since 1992
Mission
Resto Plateau is a non-profit organization and social economy actor with the mission of supporting autonomy and inclusion as well as respond to essential needs such as social and professional integration and food security in the Montreal community and its surrounding areas.
Resto Plateau’s role as a workplace integration employer means that it offers its program participants work experience, a salary, vocational training, and social support, so that they can successfully enter the labour market and develop careers in the restaurant industry.
Its role in the community means that Resto Plateau is a welcoming space where everyone can share healthy meals at an affordable price.
Resto Plateau also works with people experiencing food insecurity or isolation by supporting their food self-sufficiency as well as their social autonomy, in partnership with other community actors.
Vision
Helping to build an inclusive society, a resilient and durable future where everyone has space to grow with dignity.
Our Values
Engagement is in our DNA at Resto Plateau. We want to make a significant impact on the lives of the people who make use of our integration services and food self-sufficiency or social support services. We make a commitment to them, as well as to our partners and financial supporters, our members, and the community, that we will continue to carry out our mission, provide good results and, come what may, continue to show up for our community.
What does this look like in reality?
- Each member of the team provides their unique contribution to supporting the realization of our mission in alignment with our values.
- We regularly question our methods and approaches to ensure that we are always improving and developing as individuals and as an organization.
- We hold ourselves accountable for our actions, results, and resource use.
Here at Resto Plateau, inclusion means welcoming every individual in their integrity and embracing our differences. It means designing and offering approaches and services to give an equitable opportunity to everyone. It means fostering and encouraging active participation from everyone from a perspective of mutual respect.
What does this look like in reality?
- We include workers in training, restaurant patrons, partners, volunteers, the Board of Directors and employees in decisions that affect them and value their contributions.
- We consider the specific situation of each person in our integration program in order to provide them with support that is tailored to their needs.
- We seek out ideas from participants in our community actions and consider their needs when developing projects.
At Resto Plateau, we express our creativity through our ability to imagine innovative solutions to respond to the needs of the people we support. This means demonstrating resourcefulness on a daily basis and continually adapting to new situations with the resources we have available.
What does this look like in reality?
- We stay informed on new situations, methods, and developments in our different fields and are attentive to our environment at all times.
- We are free to express our ideas and welcome those of others, whether from our colleagues, external partners, volunteers or restaurant patrons.
- We fearlessly launch new projects and new approaches to work or support practices to increase our social impact.
Developing a sense of empowerment is critical to our support and intervention methods at Resto Plateau, as well as to our approaches to teamwork and to the role of each employee. Valuing empowerment means targeting autonomy, demonstrating trust, contributing to dialogue and providing each person with tools so that they can make decisions, whether for themselves or for Resto Plateau.
What does this look like in reality?
- We are firmly convinced that each person is capable of making positive steps toward their own development.
- We believe that everyone has the potential to be an expert on their own lives and is the best person to make informed decisions for themselves.
- We support each person in their process of developing their own autonomy and decision-making skills.
- We empower each employee or work team with by giving them the autonomy to make decisions, allowing us to support individual and collective accomplishments.
Solidarity, for Resto Plateau, means working with other community actors, coming together to mutually support one another and contributing to an inclusive society where everyone has space to grow with dignity.
What does this look like in reality?
- We work together, we support one another, and we value teamwork. The complementarity of our different teams and the collaboration between them is key to the successful execution of our mission.
- We are capable of stating our needs and asking for help, both at an individual level and a collective one.
We offer our support and help to other community actors. We share our knowledge, ideas and tools.
Social economy
Resto Plateau is a social economy enterprise.
We are a non-profit organization (NPO) that engages in economic activities solely to support our social mission. By using our catering services or renting our venue, our clients contribute to our mission of promoting food security and access to employment in Montreal and on the South Shore.
Discovering Resto Plateau
History
Board of Directors
- Ignace Mouzannar, President
- Agnès Beaulieu, Vice-President
- Andréanne Côté, Secretary
- Novy Renaud-Fortier, Treasurer
- Francis Picard, Director
- Robert Mai, Director
- France Franc, Director
- Eliot Barberger, Director
- André Poulin, Director
Staff Members
Administration
- Audrey Mougenot, Managing Director
Responsible for Personal Information Protection (audrey.mougenot@ restoplateau.com;
514-527-5997) - Amandine Raimbault, Administration and Finance Director
- Emmanuelle Porcher, Accounting and Administrative Assistant
- Alexis Gohier-Drolet, Communication and Marketing Officer
- Rose Mary Rojas, Personnel Administration Assistant for workplace integration
- Atikatou Ngamtiate Vessah, Administrative assistant
Community
- Ines Maurette, Community and Communications Director
- Carole Gauthier, Food Security Project Officer and Volunteer coordinator
- Claudine Preynet, Community Life Project Manager
- John Henry Angrignon Atkins, Dishwasher and Maintenance Worker
Workplace Integration
- Andrée Louis-Seize, Integration and Clinical Supervision Director
- Elisabeth Edouard-Fénélus, Recruitment Officer
- Simon Talbot, Workplace Integration Projects Officer
- Rachelle Bolduc, Psychosocial Support Worker
- Sophie Chesnel, Psychosocial Support Worker
- Sophie Rouania, Psychosocial Support Worker
- Papis Diop, Psychosocial Support Worker
- Elhadji Bathily, Teacher for the Champlain Adult Education Center
Production and Technical Training
- Sophie Plante, Director of Production and Technical Training
- Katie Tremblay, Operations Coordinator
- Méline Besson, Instructor and Educational Manager
- Jhoane Louis, Cooking Instructor
- Mélissa Landry, Cooking Instructor
- Italo Manzanos, Cooking Instructor
Catering and space rental : Sales and Logistics Team
- Félix Donadieu, Sales and Strategy Manager
- Manon Boucher, Coordination and Logistics Officer
- Maïa Descary, Commercialization Project Officer
- Anaëlle Jouannard, Marketing Officer
- Steve Blais, Delivery Driver
Catering in Montreal
- Julie Flynn-Robitaille, Executive Chef and Production Manager
- Isabelle Arbour, Sous Chef
- Jihane Belhaissi, Cook
- Cindy Garcia Gonzalez, Cook
- Alexandre Côté, Dishwasher
Central Kitchen
- Siham Belhaissi, Kitchen production Chef
- Hanzel Arenas, Sous Chef
- Axel Sabourault, Cook
- Bénédicte Marion, Cook
National Theater School of Canada (NTS)
- Sebastian Roy-Heaton, Chef and Instructor
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and South Shore
- Marine Manguet, Executive Catering and Production Manager South Shore
- Jean-François Parent, Sous Chef
- Roxane St-Laurent Gagné, Cook
- Yadira Sonseca, Cook
- Sylvester Fontaine, Cook
+ 88 program participants every year !
Volunteers
Over the last year, 65 individuals performed a total of 1577 hours of volunteer work. We are so grateful for each and every one of them!
BECOME A VOLUNTEEROur Partners
We would like to warmly thank our financial supporters and donors.