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At the Bordeaux Commercial Court in April 2008.

Sitting on a bench within the misplaced footsteps of the Bordeaux Commercial Court, Thomas (the primary identify has been modified), 28, doesn’t conceal his stress. In a couple of minutes, he will probably be obtained by a decide; This is the primary time he has handled justice. A primary step earlier than the liquidation of his firm offering companies within the resort and restaurant resort, launched 4 years in the past.

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For him, completed, catering. ” I’ve had it up to here. The schedules are too restrictive, the environment is difficult, the competition is very tough… ” After this mishap, the young man no longer wants to hear about entrepreneurship. He prefers to rely on the wages.

In a city that holds the French record, after Paris, the number of cafes, hotels and restaurants related to the population – 730 for 261,804 inhabitants, according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) in Gironde-, the hotel and restaurant is the sector, tied with construction, the most represented in the collective procedures processed by the Commercial Court (16 %) in the first quarter of 2025, behind the small trade (33 %).

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