OREANDA-NEWS. January 24, 2011. OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding (Company, Rosinter), the leading casual dining restaurants chain in Russia and CIS (RTS and MICEX ticker: ROST) announces the purchase of the restaurant under the trade mark T.G.I. Friday’s™ in the downtown of Warsaw (Poland), reported the press-centre of Rosinter Restaurants.

The bargain allowed OJSC Rosinter Restaurants Holding to become the sole franchisee of TGI Friday's ™ in Poland and thus the company received an exclusive opportunity to develop the brand in this area. The restaurant is located in the Atrium Plaza shopping center and during the last 12 years it had been operating under the management of American Bistro Poland by the franchising agreement with Carlson Restaurants Worldwide. Restaurant’s floor area equals 305 м2, not considering 130 м2 of summer terrace, which is open for the guests from May to September. The restaurant can serve to 236 guests at once.

This T.G.I. Friday’s™ became the sixth restaurant in Poland by Rosinter. As of today, Rosinter is also managing IL Patio and Planet Sushi in Warsaw, Planet Sushi in Wroclaw, T.G.I. Friday’s™ and Planet Sushi in Poznan.

Sergey Beshev, President and CEO, Rosinter Restaurants Holding, OJSC:
“Rosinter holds the rights to develop the restaurants under the international trade mark T.G.I. Friday’s™ in 19 countries in Eastern Europe, CIS and Baltic. As of today we operate within 32 restaurants under this trade mark. The 14 restaurants are located in Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Kazakhstan and Poland. We are happy to gain the opportunity to develop this world brand and we would like to thank our franchisor Carlson Restaurants Worldwide for this great confidence. The company will do its best for the restaurants to always fulfill the standards of the international brand T.G.I. Friday’s™ and we wish a great success to our Polish team”.