A store of the Ukrainian franchise Multi Cook, created by the co-founder of the Galya Baluvana chain of stores, will open in the center of the Slovak capital Bratislava on November 24, the Multi Cook press service reports.
According to the new franchisee, Yuriy Porokhnavets, Slovak law requires that premises for the production and sale of semi-finished products meet the same standards as restaurants. The other day, the Slovak sanitary and epidemiological service signed all the documents that allow opening a Multi Cook convenience store.
It is noted that along with the Multi Cook brand, another direction is developing abroad – Multibar. This is a new network of establishments that will offer ready-to-eat meals for visitors to take away and on-site. One of the first franchisees to open this format will be in Warsaw.
The Porokhnavets family plans to become the first Multibar franchisee in Bratislava.
As reported, the franchise of the Ukrainian chain of convenience stores Galya Baluvana under the Multi Cook brand has been developing since 2022. So far, it is represented by more than 250 stores in 25 countries. According to co-founder Volodymyr Matviychuk, Slovenia will be the 26th country where the franchise will be introduced, followed by Sweden and Switzerland.
Galya Baluvana was founded in 2019 in Lutsk. As of August 2024, the chain had more than 950 stores and 172 franchisees. Since 2023, the company has stopped adding new partners to the general Galya Baluwana network, and only franchisees that were included earlier can open new outlets.
According to Opendatabot, Volodymyr Matviychuk and Oleksandr Teliga are the owners of the chain’s development company, Cooking at Home LLC (Lutsk).
