Ihor
Tynnyy

Ihor Tynnyy is a co-owner of three Kyiv establishments: the “Prague” restaurant, the “Marlin” fish restaurant in the Ocean Plaza shopping mall, and the Italian trattoria Montecchi Capuleti in Pechersk. “All three projects are completely different in concept, location, audience, and birth history, but they share the core values ​​that we lay in the foundation. Our establishments are primarily about food, the atmosphere, and service, about love for the guest and the business. We are creating restaurants for years.” Stories with the implementation of concepts based on gastro trends, which flare up brightly and fade quickly, are not about Ihor. His way is to choose projects that will find their supporters for many years. The restaurant doors were closed with a sense of responsibility and disagreement. I am a supporter of the idea of ​​”social responsibility” of business under these conditions and the introduction of an additional sales tax for this period, rather than total quarantine and complete cessation of activities. We had to choose another virus control strategy that we could afford. Ukraine is too poor as a country. I am sure that long-term quarantine and a “frozen” economy will have much more tragic consequences than the virus itself. The responsibility for the decisions made by the authorities fell on the business. Therefore, the main task now, Ihor considers, is the preservation of jobs. “Today, we can leave only half of the team with which we hope to restart the projects. These decisions are tough.”