Yevgeny Prigozhin - Chief Chef of the Russian Government
This man was served with exquisite dishes of the headsforeign states, kings, crown princes, who visited our country on business visits. He is called the main supplier of food for the largest political parties. Every day Eugene Prigogine feeds lunch members of the Russian Cabinet in his cozy restaurant, located in the Government House. He personally knows the head of state, with the approval of which the restaurateur is the main supplier of food for the military. Currently, Yevgeny Prigozhin is looking for new horizons for the development of his business and does not miss the opportunity to inflate scandals in the press, laying out sometimes killing compromising materials on the representatives of the political Olympus of Russia. What was remarkable about this man's career?
Facts from biography
Eugene Prigozhin, whose biography is not withoutdark spots, is a native of the "northern" capital. He was born in 1961. His father worked as a mining engineer. He studied at the boarding school of the Olympic Reserve.
In his youth Yevgeny Prigozhin was fond ofskiing. The young man got a job as a tutor in the Youth Theater of the Krasnogvardeysky district of the city on the Neva. Then he entered the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute. But, as already stressed, the biography of a young athlete can not be considered flawless. In his younger years, he had problems with the law. Yevgeny Prigozhin was convicted for theft (admittedly, conditionally). However, during the period of serving this term, he was presented with a whole series of charges of fraud, robbery, and then he received for his actions a real term of punishment. But then the conviction was repaid, and the future restaurateur became a law-abiding citizen.
The first steps in business
Prigozhin Evgeny startedentrepreneurial activity with the fact that he opened several round-the-clock supermarkets. A few years later, the beginning businessman became the owner of the bar-restaurant "Wine Club" on Vasilievsky Island. However, he soon realized that without an experienced wine drink expert, the matter would not be profitable.
He found such a man. Then fate brings him to the Englishman Tony Gere, who throws him the idea of opening another catering establishment - a bar where visitors could eat sausages and drink fresh beer. As a result, the "Old Customs" appeared.
Business began to flourish
In 1995, Prigozhin Evgeny Viktorovich establishedcompany "Concord", which will later organize banquets in the Kremlin and become the leader of catering services. Its structure will include such famous catering establishments as: "Russian Empire", "Blindonalts", "Old Customs", "Gloss".
The revenues of Prigogine gradually grew, and in 1997he invests in a restaurant on the ship "New Island". Of course, when the institution was working, there was no enduring visitors: everyone wanted to have dinner, admiring the beauty of Northern Palmyra.
Soon high-ranking guests came here: Sergey Stepashin and Michel Camdessus. They liked the food to taste.
Winning the tender
When the Northern Capital was to be performedthree hundred years, the question arose who will be engaged in servicing the presidential parties in honor of the celebration of the memorable date. And in the tender won the "Concorde", whose leader has made an early effort to not stay away. In the future, he repeatedly organized a kitchen for members of the government, royalty, presidents of different countries. Well, to the inhabitants of North Palmyra, he proposed a network of "folk" catering establishments, which were favorably priced at affordable prices. Among them is the famous "Blindonalts" in St. Petersburg.
In 2003, Yevgeny Prigozhin ("Concorde")becomes the author of a book for schoolchildren called "Indraguziki". He does not consider it shameful to work as a waiter or concoct some spicy food in the kitchen.
In the spring of 2008, a restaurant "SPb" was opened in the Russian capital. This catering establishment has become a favorite holiday destination for residents of North Palmira, who come on business to Moscow.
Regalia
The work of a well-known restaurateur wasnoted by representatives of the political elite. He received a medal "In commemoration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg", the Order "For Services to the Fatherland I and II degree", thanks from the head of the Russian government. For his contribution to the development of the hospitality industry, Yevgeny Viktorovich was awarded a national prize.
Property of Prigogine
The structure of Concord is a developercottage village North Versailles. In the head restaurateur a lot of ambitious ideas are born. For example, he planned to provide dinners with social infrastructure facilities, schools, kindergartens, military units.
And of course, not everything he conceived turned out to beforce. Trying to realize his "large-scale projects", one day he was in the middle of a scandal. In Yekaterinburg, a major emergency occurred - cadets of the Institute of the Ministry of Emergency Measures poisoned with food, which supplied the company Medstroy. And its owner is the wife of Eugene Prigogine. Restaurateur rejects his involvement in the incident. Also, the businessman is accused of the fact that the food prepared by Concorde for students reduced the appetite of schoolchildren. And here the businessman does not see his guilt, referring to what he is preparing for both children and adults alike: they say, no one has ever complained about the poor quality of food.
Anyway, the businessman does not intend to give up his grandiose plans. He intends to build even more catering establishments, which should appear in many regions.
