For centuries, America and Europe have honored their writers, painters and composers. The people who build restaurants have never received even one percent of that admiration and gratitude.
Someone dreamed up the concept, the room and the menu, hired and trained the people, and made the guest happy. That person is an artist.
Yet building a successful restaurant is a billion times harder than painting a picture.
Cyrus Tkachuk is a serial entrepreneur who grew up in a family of restaurateurs. From the age of twelve he watched restaurants and hotels being created in his hometown of Odesa, Ukraine: the buildings, the concepts, the openings and every problem an owner faces along the way.
When the war came to Ukraine, he moved to New York. Here he founded Dracarys Finance and DRACARYS Media, the news outlet and rankings for America’s restaurant business.
Actors have the Oscars. Restaurateurs have no one. The owners who build restaurant groups and the managers who keep them running almost never get public attention.
DRACARYS Media tells the story of America’s restaurant business through numbers and through the voices of the people inside it: who is growing, who just opened, and who stands behind them with capital.
A Renaissance for American restaurants.
In 15th-century Florence, the world saw the Renaissance. It happened in part because patrons like the Medici created the conditions for artists to work.
We want the next 50 years to be a Renaissance for American restaurants: hundreds of thousands of beautiful new concepts, and places the world has never seen before. It starts with knowing the people who build them.