• Ivan Kukarskikh and Bogdan Panchenko

    Founders of Lucky Group
    Having traveled around Europe and gained experience, Bogdan and Ivan consciously moved towards the restaurant industry. Ivan opened the first BB Burgers project in 2013. Bogdan, helping his partner and close friend, was simultaneously engaged in supplying vegetables and fruits from Russian cities to large companies in the capital.
    In the fall of 2017, together with brand chef Glen Ballis, was opened a joint project Margarita Bistro on the corner of Malaya Bronnaya street.
    There are now 15 restaurants in the Lucky Group, which are united by values, attention to detail and most importantly – hospitality. In addition to restaurants, Lucky Group develops the areas of events, catering, training services and merch.
  • Dmitry Volkov

    COO
    Dmitry started his career in restaurant industry in 2010 from a waiter's assistant position in the restaurant chain "Coffemania", where he worked for 8,5 years, having gained extensive management experience in staff training and management. Dmitry has opened the Greek restaurant Eva, Russian cuisine restaurant Niki. Then he worked as a territorial manager of Niki, Eleven, All Day. The main thing in work is the team, where everyone shares the same life values, loves their work, loves people and enjoys what they do.
  • Maxim Gorelik

    Chef Bartender

    Has been in the industry for 10 years. He started his career in Krasnoyarsk (2011-2012), then worked in bars in St. Petersburg (2013) with the future founders of the Imbibe bar. In 2014 he moved to Moscow and worked at one of the first Speak Easy in Russia - Jack Rose, then joined the team of Bruce Lee Bar (former Belka Bar), where six months later he became a bar manager at the age of 22. In 2016, he had experience in bar consulting, and at the beginning of 2017 he joined the team of opening the Cevicheria restaurant. In mid-2017, he received an offer to open a new project Margarita Bistro as a bar manager. A year later, he opened Lucky Izakaya Bar, afterwards - Eva and Loro, thereafter he became the chief bartender of the new restaurant group Lucky Group.

    Since 2017 he is also part of the Bacardi - Martini family. Since September 2017, he was the trade ambassador of Bacardi - Martini in Moscow. Since January 1, 2022, he has been the Patron tequila brand ambassador in Russia and Eastern Europe.

    Included in the Top 10 Russian bar managers according to Barproof 2017-2018 and the Top 3 Russian bar managers according to Barproof 2019-2021.

    Now he is a speaker at various restaurant and bar venues in Russia, such as the Roman Toroschin Training Center, Gastreet Show, Moscow Food Academy.

    The ideologist of the educational bar community at Lucky Group - Lucky Bar Skills.

  • Yana Sidrevich

    Head Manager

    While still a student, she found a job in the field of restaurant business and immediately found herself in a place that became the basis for the formation of fine skills in the field of hospitality – in "Coffee Mania".

    After 11 years of working at the company, she decided to move on and joined the Lucky Group team as a manager.

    "I truly believe that great things are never done by one person, but by a team. That's why the most important thing for me is to be an integral part of a team of like-minded people looking in the same direction. In our case, this direction is our guest! After all, everything starts and ends with him!"

  • Dmitry Nikitin

    Chef
    He started his career in 2014 in Moscow at the “Fahrenheit” restaurant as a chef assistant (then the cook and the foreman of the hot shop). In 2018 he worked as a sous-chef at Choice. Healthy Social Club. In a year, he became part of the Margarita Bistro, where he went from sous-chef to chef. He believes that the main thing in his work is a strong team spirit. It is also important to give your love to guests in every dish.
  • Alexander Maltsev

    Bar Manager
    Alexander Maltsev started his career back in 2018 in the Oryol region as a bartender. After working for a year, he decided to move to Moscow. He was waiting the occurrence for bartender vacancy at Margarita Bistro restaurant for 5 months. In March 2020, he became part of the Lucky Group team as a bartender. Two years later, he took up the position of bar - manager at Margarita bistro.

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