A lasting and close relationship with API RESTAURATION's suppliers

Local supply:- API does not have a central purchasing organization. The purchase department, located at the headquarters, lists the local suppliers and negotiates prices, but the chefs deal with the purchases – from local producers as a priority – based on this referencing. - API favors local purchasing: to ensure a local and regular supply, annual market agreements are signed with the regional Chambers of Agriculture [the body responsible for the agricultural interests of a département]. In addition, since January 2011, partnership agreements have been implemented directly between API and local producers in each region. - API leads meetings with the Chambers of Agriculture and the networks of local organic producers. Lasting relationships:- Most of API's suppliers are long-standing partners, some since the beginnings of the company in mass catering in the 1960's. - API works in a transparent manner with the suppliers from the same sector, selected on different criteria (proximity, quality, prices) in order to promote local employment. It also works with reintegration companies.