Choice raises €6.6 million to expand restaurant AI platform in CEE
Restaurant technology startup Choice has secured €6.6 million in new funding and is accelerating its expansion across CEE, including Romania, where it entered in 2025.
Restaurant technology startup Choice has secured €6.6 million in new funding and is accelerating its expansion across CEE, including Romania, where it entered in 2025.
Premier Restaurants Romania, the operator of McDonald's in Romania, has reached a new milestone with the opening of its 110th restaurant, reaching a total headcount of over 7,000.
Flavours Group, an operator of event catering and premium restaurants within office buildings and educational institutions, has announced a 21.7% increase in year-on-year.
Romanians spent a combined €6.2 billion on dining out last year, a figure more than quadruple the amount spent a decade ago, with average spending at €830 per family in 2024, according to a Colliers report.
Nhood Services Romania has been selected to support the international expansion of the Romanian restaurant chain Spartan.
The investment in the restaurant in Brăila, opened on August 15, amounted to €350,000.
The new restaurant is franchised and located after the airport check-in area. In May, Hesburger announced its entry in Romania with the opening of a restaurant in Râmnicu Vâlcea.
City Grill Group restaurants are top destinations for Bucharest residents and beyond, being visited daily by nearly 20,000 customers.

The World Bank has significantly downgraded its economic growth projections for Romania this year, lowering expectations to 0.5% from the 1.3% forecast issued at the start of 2026.
Foraj Sonde Videle has announced the acquisition of Raffles Energy, a British holding company that owns two Romanian energy companies active in natural gas and electricity production.
Econergy Renewable Energy has secured approximately €31 million in project financing from Kommunalkredit Austria to develop its 60 MW photovoltaic project in southeastern Romania.
Romanian software company Arobs Transilvania Software has completed the merger by absorption of five subsidiaries - Arobs Development & Engineering, Berg Computers, Nordlogic Software, Infobest Romania, and Centrul de Soft GPS.
The European retail sector faced a cooling period in February 2026, with the latest Eurostat data revealing a divergence between a stabilising Union and a sharply declining Romanian market.