The turnover of public catering facilities in Kazan reached almost 20 billion rubles for 2016

(KZN.RU, February 3, Mikhail Chentsov). The turnover of catering facilities of Kazan for the year increased by 665 million rubles, and in 2016 amounted to 19 billion 459 million (in 2015 - 18 billion 794 million). It grew almost 2 times over the past five years. Ruslan Zainetdinov, the chairman of the Committee of the consumer market of the city, reported this to Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, at the meeting on the results of 2016.

According to R. Zaynetdinov, the number of catering facilities increased by 105 over the past year and there are 1675 now. Changes in market trends are observed along with it. “The middle segment is now transferred to the simplest dishes: steaks and burgers. Such new formats as a lounge-cafe, gastro-bars, resto-bars, a brasserie, street food, cafes, bakeries and gastronomy are becoming popular. However, the stability of the premium institutions is maintained, and national cuisine is still in demand”, said the speaker.

In 2016, such institutions as “Pushkin”, “Marani”, “Mano, Marusovka”, “DOM”, “Bread and Wine”, “Tor Nor”, “Leuven”, “LeShale”, “Genatsvali”, “Louis” appeared in Kazan, the first national fast food “Tyubetey” had opened.

As R. Zainetdinov told, interesting places are opened more often in the periphery than in a crowded town center. “One of the centers of attraction was the street Sibgat Hakim while the central streets are losing institutions”, said the chairman.

R. Zainetdinov also spoke about the appearance of farm size-the-counter shops: “Koza-Dereza”, “Myastso”, “Farmer”, “Peasant Woman” etc. are among them. R. Zainetdinov explained it by the fact that the priorities of the population tend to farm products during the period of “savings of consumption”. This is confirmed by the high popularity of agricultural fairs, where a large percentage of citizens regularly buy products.

The chairman of the Committee of the consumer market noted that the number of retail properties in Kazan grew by 669 institutions and was amounted to 3565 last five years. During the same time, the number of shopping centers and shopping complexes has almost doubled from 74 to 140. The number of retail markets fell 5 times with the development of new retail formats in 2011 - up to 5 objects, as well as the number of non-stationary trade objects decreased 2 times - 1103.

Also illegally placed objects had located in the area of attention of the Committee of the consumer market. 249 such sites have been dismantled over the reporting period.

The Committee also carried out the demolition of illegal buildings of the capital in 2016. “The inventory of all the enforcement proceedings was held in conjunction with the police officers and the demolition of 42 out of 70 facilities was implemented. The most revealing objects were on the streets Ostrovsky, Zenitnaya, Krasnokokshayskaya and the underpass on the street Dementiev”, concluded R. Zainetdinov.