In 2024, Ukraine’s top 10 restaurant and hotel companies increased their total revenue by 10%, reaching UAH 28.22 billion. The ranking includes six restaurant chains, two suppliers of ready-to-eat meals, and two hotel operators, but only six ended the year with a profit, as reported by Opendatabot.
McDonald’s retains the lead
McDonald’s remained the undisputed leader, increasing revenue by 30% to UAH 16.84 billion. The company’s profit grew by 24% to UAH 1.59 billion, the highest among all the ranked companies.
New companies
The rating’s debutant, Kontrakt Prodreserve 5, which specializes in catering to educational institutions, took second place. Its revenue grew 1.5 times to UAH 4.44 billion, and its profit increased 1.6 times to UAH 122.7 million.
Puzata Khata (Opercom LLC) took third place, with a 1.5-fold increase in revenue to UAH 1.47 billion. However, the company suffered losses of UAH 37.4 million.
KFC is in the top three
Three companies that developed the KFC brand took fourth, fifth, and sixth place:
- Testi Food (owned by Valeriy Kiptyk, co-owner of Varus and Eva) maintained revenue at UAH 1.03 billion, but profit decreased 5.7 times to UAH 29 million.
- The Global Restaurant Group-Ukraine, founded by the American Barillium Investments, increased its revenue by 19% to UAH 982.9 million, but losses increased 2.4 times to UAH 155.8 million.
- DTS-Kharkiv increased its revenue by 25% to UAH 771.9 million, but profits fell 30 times to UAH 10.5 million.
Hotel Sector: Revenue Growth, but Not Profits
Hotel operators Parktour (Bukovel) and International Business Center (Hilton Kyiv) ranked seventh and eighth, increasing revenues by 31% and 27%, respectively. However, Parktour recorded a 50-fold drop in profits to UAH 40.6 million, and Hilton Kyiv suffered a loss of UAH 169 million.
The rating is rounded out by
Atomservice, which had a bad year in 2024: revenue decreased almost seven times and profit decreased 33 times to UAH 16.3 million. Tenth place was taken by Dominos Pizza Ukraine, which increased its revenue by 1.5 times to UAH 550 million and halved its losses to UAH 16.6 million.
