Bankers to open 1m-euro restaurant

A group of top managers from Bucharest, most of whom are presidents and vice-presidents of banking institutions, will invest one million euros to open a restaurant in Bucharest, where they will hire a top-notch chef, whose wage will rival that of a banker. Among the twenty-tree founding members of the company that will run the Heritage restaurant in Bucharest are Robert Rekkers, CEO of Banca Transilvania, Dan Pascariu, chairman of HVB Bank Romania, Radu Ghetea, chairman of the Romanian Bankers Association, Anca Ioan, CEO of Tiriac Holdings, George Michelis, president of Bancpost and Rasvan Radu, president of UniCredit. “The idea caught on so fast that just two or three days later, all partners were in, with the business plan being only drawn up afterwards. We are not pressured into making profit, and this is a big advantage,” stated George Butunoiu, the initiator of this project, one of the best-known headhunters on the market. Nevertheless, Heritage will not be a “non-profit company”, Dragos Petrescu, president of the company, says. ZF