HoRes Conference 2025 Gastronomy

FIHR is a partner of the HORES Conference 2025 Gastronomy event "How can we concretely maximize the profitability of restaurants, whether independent or affiliated with hotels"
Location: Hotel Caro, Grand Ballroom, Bucharest
Date: May 7, 2025
Topic: "How can we concretely maximize the profitability of restaurants, whether independent or hotel-affiliated restaurants"
At this event, we will analyze, together with established consultants in the field, essential topics for increasing restaurant profitability:
• Case studies presented at the conference by successful restaurant owners and managers (independent and hotel-affiliated);
• Domestic and international technologies and trends;
• Adapting to the ever-changing habits of customers;
• Menu Engineering: optimizing menus to maximize profit.

 

The event is structured as follows:
10:00 – 10:30 – welcome coffee

10:30 – 11:45 – Panel 1, in which the speakers will speak:
o Tinu Sebeșanu – Managing Partner Trend Hospitality
o Radu Savopol – co-founder of the 5 to go coffee shop chain and President of HORA
o Simona Constantinescu – FIHR President and Ana Hotels board member
o Radu Dumitrescu – founder and CEO of Stadio Hospitality Concepts, which operates 7 restaurants and its own production space
o Marius Băzăvan – Managing Partner Bacolux Hotels and Vice President of FIHR
o Chef Cezar Munteanu – founder of the Chef Atelier restaurant in Bucharest
o Ioana Petrescu – General Manager of Epoque Hotel Relais & Châteaux in Bucharest

12:15 – 1:30 p.m. – Panel 2, in which the speakers will speak:
o Radu Tănase – co-founder of Shoteria and Executive Director of HORA
o Paul Mărăsoiu – CEO of Peacock Hotels
o Claudia Militello – co-owner of Sciccheria restaurants
o Florentina Dumitrache – CEO Mapamond Hotels (which includes Bavaria Blu Hotel & Conference Centre in Mamaia, Hotel Carol in Constanta, Hotel Florentina in Constanta)
o Carmen Diaconu – co-founder of Noeme restaurant in Bucharest
o Gigi Ciocârlan and Dan Coza – owners of Alouette restaurants in Bucharest

Throughout the conference, consultants with extensive operating experience will speak, namely:
• Călin Ile – Senior Partner Premier Hospitality
• Dragoș Panait Cristian – founder of the Red Angus Steakhouse restaurant in Bucharest and the consulting firm Next Root Hospitality Consultants
• Octavian Moldovan – CEO The Makers (Green Village Resort, Green Dolphin Camping, Valea Verde Retreat – Transylvania, Hotel La Boheme Bucharest)
• Anca Pavel Nedea – co-owner of the Opal Hotel in Cap Aurora
• Cristina Huzum – Deputy General Manager at Sheraton Bucharest Hotel
• Alecsandru-Ionuț Blându – founder of Kronstadt Hospitality Expert and General Manager of the Casa Viorel Hotel in Poiana Brașov,

who will act as co-moderators and will complement the case studies presented by the conference speakers with information from personal experience.

Participation in HoRes Conference events is free for owners and managers of accommodation and catering establishments.
For any other category of public, the price is 300 euros + VAT / person.

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