Teremok closed restaurants in the United States

American restaurant of the Teremok network. Photo: Facebook Mikhail Goncharova

Two Teremok restaurants in New York closed, the head of the network Mikhail Goncharov, head of the network, told VC.

Quote: “In May, we closed both points, now we are looking for new locations and work out lease agreements. It was our own solution, this is a technical moment, we will move, ”he said.

• Answering the clarifying question of the journalist The Bell, how realistic the resumption of the network in the USA, Goncharov said that "is not yet clear." He refused more detailed comments. “I decided not to comment on the situation in order to avoid unnecessary political speculation. We were faced with hostility, this was already said about this in March. I have nothing more to add, ”said Goncharov.

Context

• At the end of March, Goncharov wrote on Facebook that his company was faced with the “frank hostility” of the sanitary inspector in New York, who, in particular, asked if the Teremok was connected with Vladimir Putin and whether the network was participating in money laundering from Russia.
• In the same month, the Patch publication wrote that the New York sanitary service suspended the work of one of the restaurants, since several violations were found in the institution at once. According to official data from the service, at the end of March the restaurant passed a second check.
• Teremok opened in New York in June 2016, the company has been preparing to enter the American market since 2014. Bloomberg, who was the first to learn about the release of Teremka in the United States, called it the first Russian fast food network in the United States.
• Details about the opening of Teremka restaurants in the United States can be read here . The Russian market also entered the American market, the Russian Pizzeria Pizza Pizza network also entered.

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Artem Gubenko, Vladimir Motorin