Alla Teliga, co-founder of Galya Baluwana and Wesola Pani chains, is launching a new franchise of a family cafe specializing in chebureks, Tsiberek, according to the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers.
According to the release, the first restaurant under the brand will be opened in Lutsk (2 Vynnychenka Street), scheduled to open in October. The menu was developed by Alla Teliga, the author of all recipes of the Galya Baluvana chain, and the famous chef Vladyslav Tsymbalyuk. The next step is to launch franchise sales.
Galya Baluvana was founded in 2019 in Lutsk. As of August 2024, Galya Baluwana had more than 950 stores and 172 franchisees. Since 2023, the company has stopped adding new partners to the Galya Baluwana joint network, and only franchisees who were previously included can open new outlets.
According to Opendatabot, Volodymyr Matviychuk and Oleksandr Teliga are the owners of the chain’s developer, Gostuyemo po domashnomu LLC (Lutsk). According to the company’s financial statements for 2022, its net profit for the year increased 3.5 times and amounted to UAH 14.9 million.
As reported, in January 2024, the Ukrainian chain of convenience stores Galya Baluwana opened its first store in Philadelphia (USA) under the MultiCook brand (developed by Volodymyr Matviychuk).
The Wesoła Pani chain of convenience food stores from the Ukrainian company Galya Baluwana (developed by Alla and Oleksiy Telig) is already represented by 140 outlets in three European countries (Poland, Latvia, and the Netherlands). Plans were announced to expand the chain in Poland to 500 stores.
In January-May 2023 in Kiev opened 172 cafes and restaurants, since the beginning of the war – about 350 institutions, said the agency “Interfax-Ukraine” co-founder of the National Restaurant Association of Ukraine Olga Nasonova.
“About 60% of Kiev’s openings are small-format establishments: coffee shops, bakeries, shawarma places, something in MAFs, something indoors. The area of up to 100 square meters. m. Microbusiness, but if it is a lot – it is power. Very few big restaurants were opened, more often it was a rebranding of existing locations,” she specified, adding that there were practically no pubs among the openings.
“Bars have reared their heads a bit, but restrictions on operating until 10 p.m. greatly reduce their profitability,” Nasonova noted.
For the popularity of establishments, the issue of safety is at the top of the list. This explains the best performance of pubs and bars in basements, as well as the geography of new openings. Activity of food zones in shopping malls is gradually recovering. The most “restaurant” zones of the city are Podol and Yarostavov Val Street, the activity is higher in the areas of old buildings than in new residential complexes.
“There are up to 50% of residents left in elite residential complexes, and the old residential areas are full of people, including because there is more affordable rental housing for people who moved there,” – the expert explained.
As for prospective formats, in the near future, demand will also focus on mini-formats. “Investment in the launch of a coffee shop with an area up to 50 sq. m. – from $10 to $30 thousand. The rush demand – in locations with good traffic”, – said Nasonova.
Created in 2021, the National Restaurant Association of Ukraine in July 2022 had more than 100 members, 370 restaurants and cafes, under management – 164 thousand square meters. m.
