The owners of the McDonald's franchise in Belarus announced that from November 22, the fast food chain will operate under the Russian brand "Delicious and Dot".

However, this has not happened yet.

On November 24, the publication "Nasha Niva" stated that Lukashenka personally forbade changing the franchise.

Until now, he said that "we have to do what McDonald's did" and was indignant: "What, we can't cut a bun in half?".

Let's see if Belarus has its own food networks.

Lido

Now there are three restaurants operating under the "Lido" brand in Minsk at the following addresses: 49 Nezalezhnosti Ave., St.

Kuhlman, 5A, str.

Neamiga, 5. The first opened in 2004.

This brand is a Latvian franchise based in Riga.

The founder of the network is Gunnars Kirsans.

The brand started working in Latvia in 1987, and got its current name in 1991.

There are 19 restaurants operating under this brand in Latvia, they are in other European cities.

And in Belarus, the network belongs to the Office of the President.

"Cornflowers"

This chain of restaurants of national cuisine began to open in Minsk in 2010.

Now there are three restaurants operating under this brand in the capital at the following addresses: 89 Nezalezhnasti Ave., 9 Peremozhtsev Ave., St.

Babruyskaya, 6.

Behind "Vasilki" is the company "Libretik", the co-owner and director of which is Vadim Avanesau ("Neighbors", "PizzaTempo").

Also among the co-owners of these brands is the Lithuanian businesswoman Alma Jauntemene.

By the way, in 2012 she was among the top 10 businesswomen of Belarus, and in 2018 - among the top 500 richest people in Lithuania.

She is also the co-owner of the Marumi pan-Asian restaurant chain.

"Drink Tempo"

The largest chain of pizzerias in Belarus today has 24 pizzerias in Minsk, Hrodna, Gomla, Mogilev, Maladechna, and Mazyr.

This network appeared in Belarus in 2002 and has continued to grow since then.

Behind the network stands the same "LibretikGroup", the co-owner of which is Alma Yavtsemene.

Burger King

The first Burger King opened in Minsk in 2015 near Kamennaya Gorka metro station.

Now there are two dozen of them in Belarus.

In total, Belarus now has 32 chain restaurants in different cities.

This is a franchise of an American chain that began its history in Florida in 1954.

Owner of the franchise in Belarus "Burger BC".

KFC

The first restaurant of this brand opened in Belarus in 2015, now the chain has fifty restaurants, 35 of them in Minsk.

KFC is a division of Yum!

Brands, Inc.

(NYSE: YUM) is an international restaurant brand with roots in the United States.

The owner of the franchise in Belarus is the Bel Food Service company.

"Mom of the House"

A chain of restaurants in food courts, now there are 5 of them in Minsk, as well as one each in Gomla and Mogilev.

Unlike other brands, this is a Belarusian chain, and the owner is journalist Dzianis Kuryan.

Papa John's

A chain of pizzerias with 21 restaurants.

She left Belarus on September 1, 2022.

The owner of the network is Eugene Student.

"Papa John's" is an international brand, the founder of the company is American John Shatter, and its roots are in the American state of Indiana.

"Quick and delicious"

These kiosks with "gold" and "walkers" are no longer in Belarus, the last kiosk was removed from Nemiga in 2021.

And they began to appear in the capital in 1992, and the German-Belarusian company "Ebert-Narpit" (liquidated in 2006) was behind it.

In 2001, there were 45 "Quick-tasty" kiosks in the capital.

The stalls were owned by businessman Konstantin Turovich.

In 2015, the Minsk City Executive Committee closed six "Quick-tasty" establishments for violations.

By February 2017, there were only two Hutka-Smachna stalls, and shawarma stalls opened in place of some of them.

And last year in April, the last stall was removed from Nemiga.

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