09.11.2023

Hard Rock Café of Bucharest’s Herastrau park ended 2022 with turnover worth almost RON27 million, a record high level for the restaurant-café opened around 15 years ago. more

12.13.2021

The 5 to go café chain has reached almost 300 shops nationwide after 90 new ones opened in 2021, with another 16 due to open soon. more

04.21.2021

Coffee shop chain Starbucks operated in Romania by Poland’s Amrest group ended last year with 54 stores, after three new openings and one closure, the annual report of the group says. more

05.06.2020

Restaurants, cafés, and bars have unlocked their doors but may not open them to welcome customers after two months of lockdown. More precisely, their owners say they are ready to resume operations more

07.19.2019

Coca-Cola HBC, one of the largest bottlers of The Coca-Cola Company beverages, will introduce the Costa Coffee brand in Romania in 2020. The bottler will launch such beverages on nine other markets of more

05.13.2019

The 2 billion lei (EUR420 million) café market in Romania is going through a paradigm shift, as independent specialty cafés are gaining ground on international and local chains. more

09.03.2018

US coffee shop chain Starbucks, present in Romania as a franchise, has about 40 cafés in the country and is the leader of its market. It posted more than 100 million lei (EUR22 million) revenue last more

06.29.2018

Hard Rock Café in Herastrau Park in Bucharest posted almost 12% increase in revenue to 18.2 million lei (EUR4 million) last year. The business has been on the rise since the company’s entry on the more

04.24.2018

Origo, Steam, Beans & Dots and Narcoffee roasters are just some of the names that put Bucharest on the map of specialty cafés in the past few years. They account for little of the market, but with more

03.09.2018

US-held café chain Starbucks has doubled its network to 38 cafés in Bucharest and the big cities of Romania in the past three years. The company’s plans are to double its network again over the more

12.18.2017

Esquires Coffee, a café operator in UK, Canada, Ireland, Middle East, Australia and Asia, has entered Portugal and Romania this year. more

08.08.2017

Two international coffee shop chains – Esquires Coffee and Costa Coffee, three coffee distributors – Moak, illy and stretto, as well as a number of private equity firms are looking at the more

07.17.2017

US Starbucks brand ended last year with 76.5 million lei (almost EUR17 million) sales in Romania, up almost 40% on 2015. The chain includes almost 30 cafés and accounted for 2% of the local market of more

07.03.2017

Gloria Jean’s, the first international name on the café market in Romania, has relocated its shop in Piata Romana (central Bucharest) to Calea Mosilor in the same city in a space that sat empty for more

08.31.2016

Romanian consumers spend 5.5 billion lei (EUR1.23 billion) a year in bars and cafes, one of the most heavily fragmented markets in the country’s economy, ZF has calculated based on the data provided more

02.02.2016

The law banning smoking in closed public places due to enforce in mid-March will have a small impact on the sales of restaurants, cafes, clubs and bars in Romania, no more than 5% for only two or more

08.15.2013

The Hard Rock Cafe in the Herastrau Park area in northern Bucharest ended last year with 11.1 million lei (EUR2.5 million) sales, up almost 5% year-on-year. more

08.01.2011

In the past two years the crisis has wiped dozens of coffee shops off the local map. Some chains went insolvent (Costa Coffee and Cup&Cino), others cut their number of shops considerably (Turabo). The more