The new restaurant will be a Trattoria Buongiorno location and the first the group opens in a district other than the city center or outside an office building in the city.
“It will be located where the ticket booth used to be, in the park. It will be the biggest Trattoria Buongiorno restaurant, with a floor area of 1,100 square meters and 650 seats, 150 seats indoors and 500 on the patio,” says Daniel Mischie, CEO of the group.
Petrescu’s restaurant group currently numbers 19 restaurants, cafés and beerhouses. It comprises five breweries and historic restaurants – Hanu’ Berarilor (two locations), Caru’ cu Bere, Pescarus, Hanu’ lui Manuc plus seven Trattoria Buongiorno and seven City Grill restaurants and City Café coffee shops.
The group posted about 135 million lei (EUR30 million) sales at the end of last year, an increase of about 17% on 2015. It expects the same growth rate this year to about EUR36 million.
“Our estimates at the beginning of the year did not take into account expansion, only organic growth coming from the rise in the average bill and customer numbers. We are seeing a change in that people no longer regard eating out as something festive but as a habit. The rise in salaries and improvement in consumer education are showing.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)