![]() His team will be opening our shops in Poland. If you know someone who fits this description or if you are ready to share this knowledge yourself, please reach out to Vladimir Goretsky at. We want to learn about everything-from taste preferences in Poland to supply chain data. Someone who will be able to help us at this important stage-studying the market. Someone from the industry, living in Poland, who (in the best case) can also speak Polish and Russian. As founder of a fast-growing Russian chain called Dodo Pizza ( ), the 33-year-old entrepreneur has reinvented the pizza business in his native land. Maybe it will be a restaurateur, chef, or prospective franchisee. F edor Ovchinnikov may have a name that’s hard to pronounce, but it’s one worth remembering. Now we realize that we need to find a food expert. Its food culture, job market, real estate, marketing trends, construction, law, taxes-everything related to QSR operations might be valuable. And next in line: Poland.īefore launching in Poland, we need to gather as much data about this new market as possible. Pretty soon, we’ll be open for business in Belarus. Our company is already the number one chain in Russia, and our chain also works in China, the US, the UK, Romania, Lithuania, and Estonia. It’s growing so rapidly that sometimes we can hardly believe it. That’s quite a story.Dodo Pizza is growing. Three Oxonians who have never crossed the ocean are going to Russia to learn how to make a better American pizza. And we’re making a movie about our journey, which we’ll share on this blog. ![]() A few tourist destinations will be visited along the way (the Red Square is on the list). We set up an intense program over the course of five days that includes visiting different pizzerias in Moscow and Syktyvkar, the city where Dodo was born, some practice in real Russian pizza shops, lectures, workshops, and meetings with all the key managers, including Dodo Pizza’s CEO, Fyodor Ovchinnikov. We helped them get their passports and prepare the visas. So they loved the idea (true adventurers!). Not only have they never been to Russia-they haven’t crossed the US border in their entire lives. On a practical level, we wanted them to study the opportunities the company provides, because in the US, we’re going down the same road and growing our chain of pizza places as we’ve done in Russia (right now, we have one pizzeria in the US, but that’s just the beginning). But we wanted them to see that for themselves and feel the energy that comes from the people working there. Fedor had a bold vision for the future of pizza delivery. My idea was to create an IT company that makes pizza. Of course, they already knew that Dodo Pizza isn’t just a single local pizza place-it’s a fast-growing chain born in Russia built from nothing in a matter of a few years. When I founded Dodo Pizza, I set out to combine technology, the Internet, and pizza to revolutionise the food industry, recalls Fedor, CEO of Dodo Pizza. ![]() So after our rough launch, when the dust settled and the summer season gave us a chance to breathe again, we had an idea: what if we took them to our head office? Became among the best members of our crew in Oxford. Dodo Pizza was a simple temporary job.īut we converted them (like others converted us) by showing them how exciting and challenging, how fun and fulfilling this pizza job can be if only you take it seriously and aim to make a great product. John, Austin-no one was thinking that it would go that far. ![]() Erin is studying engineering and mechanics at Ole Miss. They didn’t have any plans to devote any significant part of their lives to the pizza thing. I bet three Oxonians-Erin Crockett, John Swinkowski, and Austin Whiteside-didn’t see that coming when they crossed the threshold of Dodo Pizza Oxford a few months ago. Today you apply for a part-time job at a local pizza place in hopes of earning some pocket money, tomorrow you find yourself thinking about opening your own pizza delivery, and the day after, you’re boarding a plane for Russia. You never know when your life will make a sharp turn. ![]()
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