Petrescu, City Grill: Two ideas have shaped my business - the Old Centre and beer shops

The five businesses controlled by Dragoş Petrescu in Bucharest's Old Centre are operations with a good rate of revenues, but also with a significant presence in this year's hottest point of Bucharest, when all the other leisure locations of Bucharest have fallen into disgrace once the Old Centre started developing, making an area that generates annual revenues of 150m euros.
In 2010, half of the 16m-euro turnover posted by Dragoş Petrescu, one of the best-known restaurant owners in Romania, was generated by his Old Centre restaurants.
The Old Centre, a windfall for those doing business there, is ultimately limited. Hence, the other business Petrescu is counting on, namely beer shops, is to be developed.
"Looking back, there are two ideas that have shaped my current business: the Old Centre and beer shops," recounts Dragoş Petrescu the way he has stood out from the rest of tens of restaurant owners who stuck to several restaurants and are coping with crisis losses. Unlike them, Petrescu defines 2010 as "sensational".