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Food master is a Russian company-restaurateur, founded in 1997. Develops its own network of catering: "Fork-Spoon", "Stove-Benches" and "Fish.Rice.» The founders are Igor Kim and Andrey Alexeev. The General Director is Ilya Serov. The head office is located in Novosibirsk.

History
The company was founded in 1997, its appearance was largely facilitated by the successful project of the Novosibirsk fast food restaurant "Grill-master", opened in 1996 by entrepreneur Andrey Alekseev at his own expense. The project was attended by banker Igor Kim, who allocated a new facility in the Central part of Novosibirsk and, in addition, provided financial assistance. Took control of Alekseev. The cost of the restaurant paid off in a few months.

Financial success stimulated partners in the restaurant business to further development of the project. They create on a parity basis the food-master company and continue to develop public catering in Novosibirsk, and after and in Yekaterinburg, Kemerovo, Tomsk, Novokuznetsk. The most popular formats of the company are the tavern "Lived-were" (later renamed "Stove-benches") and "Fork-Spoon". After 8 years after the creation of the network has increased to almost 50 points. In 2005, its turnover amounted to more than 900 million rubles.

In the mid-2000s, the restaurant holding launched the process of business diversification, starting to invest in various projects that are not related to public catering.

In 2007, entrepreneurs decided to divide the company's assets. Igor Kim took over the restaurant business, Andrey Alekseev — development projects that "Food master" began to develop in the mid-2000s

In 2014, "Food-master" sold non-chain restaurants "Macaroni" and "Murakami", located in Novosibirsk. The company decided to direct all resources to the development of network brands.

Activity
Restaurant holding works mainly by franchising and is focused mostly on 3 network projects: "Stove-benches", "Fish.Rice" and "Fork-Spoon".

Projects

 * Stove-benches" — a network of restaurants, established in 2001. Design elements were borrowed from the restaurant chain Christmas Tree-stick. As of November 4, 2017, the restaurant chain operates in Novosibirsk and Barnaul.
 * "Fork-Spoon" — a network of canteens, opened in 2002. The first institution appeared in Novosibirsk. As of November 3, 2017, "Fork-Spoon" has 38 points in Novosibirsk (14), Yekaterinburg (15), Barnaul (3), Novokuznetsk (2), Ufa (2), Chita (1) and Nizhny Tagil (1).
 * «Fish.Rice»
 * "Perchini.»

Non-chain restaurants
In addition to network brands "Food master" developed individual projects. Non-chain restaurants were present in Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Omsk, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Moscow and Alma-ATA. But later the company decided to focus on network institutions

Other projects

 * Big dipper" — trade and exhibition complex of building materials, built on the territory of the Novosibirsk plant "Screen". In 2005, food master invested $60 million rubles in the construction of the complex. After the separation of the business of the company "the Big dipper" went


 * "AYA" is a Shoe center, in the creation of which the restaurant holding invested 9 million rubles. After the separation of the "Food master" also went to Alexeev, but was sold by the entrepreneur before the opening to unnamed persons.