Gastronomy as a real agent of social change

The study of social entrepreneurship has rapidly evolved in the last years, with a significant number of articles published. Based on a review of the existing literature in the theoretical framework of social entrepreneurship, this article attempts to clarify this phenomenon in the empirical framework of gastronomy. Gastronomy has emerged as a useful tool in social change at all levels, revolutionizing certain theoretical precepts in social entrepreneurship. A term so used in recent years that forces to rethink its meaning; what is and what is not social entrepreneurship; and the profile and the role of the social entrepreneur when detecting the social opportunity. In the preparation of this paper, several examples have been used to help understand this phenomenon. Likewise, thanks to this paper, doors are opened to future research areas in the field of social entrepreneurship in gastronomy.