{"id":278282,"date":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/french-gourmet-delivering-entrees-to-mother-of-confidence-parishioners\/"},"modified":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T07:00:00","slug":"french-gourmet-delivering-entrees-to-mother-of-confidence-parishioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/french-gourmet-delivering-entrees-to-mother-of-confidence-parishioners\/","title":{"rendered":"French Gourmet entregando entradas a los feligreses de la Madre de la Confianza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The French Gourmet in North PB has found a new way to reach out to patrons during the pandemic: delivering delicious entrees prepared daily, blast chilled, and ready to be reheated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&ldquo;We&#8217;ve got a lot of homebound people, and I got the idea of delivering food to them from a church parking lot, then have volunteers take [the meal] the last 500 yards,&rdquo; said restaurant owner Michel Malecot, who&#8217;s working with the Knights of Columbus, a global Catholic fraternal service order, delivering food to Mother of Confidence parishioners in UC. &ldquo;I started doing it on March 16 every night and on Sundays at noon. We take from two to three to as many as 10 orders.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Added Malecot: &ldquo;I do it at a fixed time and people simply come and get their pre-ordered goods, which are bagged here at French Gourmet. Bags are marked with their name and payment status.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The way it works, said Malecot, is clients order online or call or email him, before he sends them a confirmation and a credit card form and asks them to bring the completed form back when they pick up the order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&ldquo;People really appreciate the service and it is a fun and rewarding process to all of us,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It allows French Gourmet to continue to pay its bills and a fair number of employees.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Malecot noted his bakery and catering-to-go menus offer simple meals and comfort foods made from scratch in-house daily.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A typical catering-to-go offering at this time with entrees packaged in oven-ready containers might contain: Delicious soups including French onion, split pea, cream of broccoli, potato leek, beef barley, red bell pepper pear and butternut squash.&nbsp;&ldquo;We have a wide selection of freshly baked breads, croissants, cookies, breakfast pastries, and dessert pastries as well as quiche, baguette sandwiches and chicken pot pies,&rdquo; added Malecot pointing out patrons can &ldquo;grab their favorite bottle of wine from our extensive selection to accompany their meal.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&ldquo;If you have a special request just ask,&rdquo; said Malecot. &ldquo;The French Gourmet is here to help.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Order in advance for pick-up in the bakery (960 Turquoise St.) home delivery, or delivery to Our Mother of Confidence by emailing or calling Michel at <a href=\"mailto:%20catering@thefrenchgourmet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catering@thefrenchgourmet.com<\/a>, or by calling&nbsp;858-488-1725, ext. 315 for B.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Gourmet in North PB has found a new way to reach out to patrons during the pandemic: delivering delicious entrees prepared daily, blast chilled, and ready to be reheated. &ldquo;We&#8217;ve got a lot of homebound people, and I got the idea of delivering food to them from a church parking lot, then have [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":278283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"French Gourmet delivering entrees to Mother of Confidence parishioners","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}