Teremok is a Russian fast food chain that primarily specialises in traditional Russian dishes such as blini, pelmeni, and kvass, and foreign dishes popular in Russia, such as borscht. Founded in 1998 by Mikhail Goncharov, their menu was adapted from the recipes of Goncharov's mother.
Their restaurants operate in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ural, Southern Russia and Siberia.[1] As of 2017 it has grown to 300 restaurants, which formerly included two in New York City that closed in 2018.
History
The first Teremok opened in 1998 in a street kiosk in Moscow. It offered a limited set of blinis, and it was one of the first fast food chains in Russia that were offering Russian food, trying to compete with McDonald's. There are currently three types of Teremok outlets: restaurants, street kiosks,[2] and food court outlets in shopping malls, metro stations or airports.