09.13.2013

Owners of restaurants with a floor of 150 square meters in central Bucharest will pay lump sum tax of 17,136 lei (EUR3,900) per year starting 2014, while shawarma eateries will contribute lump sum tax more

05.14.2013

Romanian meat producer and distributor Carmolimp has opened a new restaurant in central city of Brasov, called Beraria Ciucas, following an investment of EUR500,000. more

05.03.2013

McDonald’s, the largest player on the Romanian restaurant market, with turnover of EUR94 million in 2011, will buy an almost 2,000 square-meter plot from the Craiova City Hall. The company had up to more

02.27.2013

A Romanian entrepreneur who had worked in the banking industry for more than two decades expects revenues of about EUR1 million from the two Subway restaurants he got a franchise for with a partner. more

01.30.2013

Dragos Petrescu, one of the most notable entrepreneurs in the restaurant business, who owns City Grill, Trattoria Buongiorno and Hanu Berarilor, will close the City Grills restaurants in Carrefour more

11.16.2012

Fast-food restaurant chain KFC has opened seven restaurants this year, three of which drive-thrus, for a total of 46. The company stepped up expansion in 2012, while rival McDonald’s preferred to more

10.31.2012

Trattoria il Calcio, the Romanian restaurant chain controlled by Valentin Salagean, Cosmin Olaroiu and Gino Iorgulescu, has recently opened its first London location, and has plans to open a second more

10.24.2012

The top five restaurants in Bucharest’s Old Town generate sales of EUR10 million to EUR12 million a year, that is 5% to 7% of the business generated by this place in the center of the city, more

09.04.2012

The McDonald’s restaurant in Piata Romana (central Bucharest), opened more than 15 years ago, serves more than 2 million customers a year and generates EUR3 million to EUR4 million revenue as more

08.29.2012

U.S. fast food chain Subway will open its fifth restaurant in Romania on Saturday, in shopping center Iulius Mall in Timisoara. more

07.10.2012

U.S. fast food chain Subway opened Sunday its fourth restaurant in Romania, in shopping center Sun Plaza, in capital city Bucharest. more

06.18.2012

Dragos Petrescu, the most powerful Romanian entrepreneur in the restaurant business, has expansion and acquisition plans for this year after noticing an increase in the average bill and customer more

05.07.2012

U.S. fast food chain Subway opened at the end of last week its first restaurant outside capital city Bucharest and its second in Romania, in shopping center Iulius Mall in Cluj-Napoca, northwestern more

03.29.2012

Gabriel Popoviciu, one of the most powerful and also lowest-profile businessmen in Bucharest, turned over the operational management to young executives. Most of them are Romanians and make sure the more

03.14.2012

McDonald’s, leader of the restaurant market in Romania, bets on a return to growth this year after its business had been flat in 2011. more

12.13.2011

McDonald’s, leader on the Romanian restaurant market, will open its first restaurant in an office building over the next few days, in America House, which already accommodates City Grill, Starbucks, more

11.18.2011

U.S. fast food chain McDonald’s has focused its investments on remodeling already existing restaurants and on the opening of new McCafe coffee shops, leaving new restaurant openings for 2012. more

11.14.2011

Fast-food restaurant chain KFC has 50,000 customers every day, who spend EUR2 or EUR3 on average. Daily sales therefore reach EUR100,000 to EUR150,000. more

06.28.2011

Ionut Patrahau, 41, former deputy general manager and member of Banca Transilvania’s board of directors, set up a restaurant business in Cluj-Napoca. The new business required investments of around more

06.23.2011

Subway, the world’s largest restaurant chain by the number of outlets (nearly 35,000 worldwide), plans to open 60 restaurants on the Romanian market by 2015. This is the first official figure more