Khamzat Khasbulatov: biography, photo, nationality

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The first McDonald's brand restaurant in Russia was founded in 1990 under Soviet rule. His first top manager was Khamzat Khasbulatov. He chose a very convenient place for the restaurant - Pushkin Square. At first, in order to get into a restaurant, people stood in line for hours. More than 30,000 customers visited it during the first day of operation alone. And ahead of the restaurant was waiting for a long and fruitful road. Further in the article, we will tell you about the life path and how it turned out that Khasbulatov Khamzat Khamidovich became the head of the Russian representative office of this global company. His biography will certainly be of interest to many. Our story will also be about how the company has developed over the course of 27 years.

Khamzat Khasbulatov: biography

The future businessman and restaurateur was born in 1956 in Kazakhstan, in a Chechen family. In the late 30s - early 40s, his parents, like many Chechen families, were deported from their native land to Central Asia. Khamzat spent his childhood insmall Kazakh village Sas-Tyuba. After the death of the leader of the peoples, many of the settlers decided to return to their native places, to the Caucasus. Khamzat Khasbulatov, whose photo you see in the article, has already gone to school in Chechnya. He studied very well, was a purposeful, inquisitive boy with a great outlook, with excellent mathematical abilities. His uncle was his life's mentor, and he advised his nephew to continue his studies after school in Moscow at the Plekhanov Institute, which at that time was considered one of the best, and even fashionable in the country.

Khamzat Khasbulatov: biography of the Moscow period

At the university, study was given to him as easily as at school, and after graduation, the young man was assigned to work as a deputy director of a restaurant at a closed facility in Tushino. Apparently, his connections helped him in this matter. However, a few months after receiving the appointment, Khamzat Khasbulatov was drafted into the Soviet army. Two years later, after returning from the service, he got a job in another restaurant in the same position. He probably had a special gift for the proper conduct of the restaurant business, and noticing this, the Moscow Trust of Restaurants began to transfer Khamazat from one catering company to another. Wherever he worked, the restaurant flourished. In this way, he has earned himself a reputation as an excellent crisis management specialist. And when McDonald's offered to open the first restaurant in Moscow, Mosrestorantrest as the future general managerrecommended Kh. Khasbulatov.

Moscow McDonald's

Two years after the opening of the first institution of the world-famous fast food chain 'McDonald's' in the Russian capital (at that time the main city of the USSR), that is, in 1988, a contract was signed to establish a joint venture " Moscow-McDonald's, and Khamzat Khasbulatov was chosen as its leader (and is to this day). Prior to that, he was the deputy director of the famous metropolitan restaurant "Budapest". He was invited for an interview, which was attended by many other candidates, but the American side gave preference to the thirty-two-year-old restaurateur, who was distinguished by non-standard thinking for his time. After signing the contract, Khasbulatov went to the American continent to the USA and Canada, where he stayed for about a year and began to comprehend the nuances of managing a restaurant of this type. By the way, 51% of the company's shares belonged to Mosrestoranservis.

Life in Canada

Thus, in 1988, Khamzat Khasbulatov ended up in the Canadian city of Toronto. He did not speak the language, and this was his main problem. However, he had high abilities and very quickly mastered the language from scratch. In the New World, he began to look at many things from a different angle, his life was filled with contrasts. Before that, he had only been abroad twice, and even then, in the countries of the socialist bloc, but here in the country of “rotting capitalism”, he realized how far behind the times we in the country of the Soviets were. Here he first saw houseswith two swimming pools, underground and multi-storey garages. I saw multi-tiered streets and highways. A shock awaited him at every step, he, like all Soviet people, was not used to such luxury. However, he also faced the other side, behind all this visible beauty and luxury was an incredible, simply hard labor of employees of enterprises. In none of the Moscow restaurants where he worked, the employees were not so busy as in the Canadian McDonald's.

Western experience

In fact, Khamzat Khamidovich in Canada began to learn the basics of the restaurant business from scratch. He even had to wash the floors in the restaurant, along with 15-year-olds. Then, when he mastered the language, he was already standing behind the cash register. Therefore, he was given access to the "holy of holies" - to the kitchen. That is, he at an accelerated pace comprehended all the steps of the career ladder. Then he went to the States, Chicago to study the science of "Hamburgerology" at a special institute. Incredible, right? It turns out that in the West there are even higher educational centers where you can learn how to cook hamburgers. All the acquired knowledge helped Khasbulatov to properly organize the activities of the first McDonald's restaurant in Russia, and then create a chain.

MunkDonald's first steps in Russia

Having returned to Moscow, Khasbulatov, enriched by impressions, decided not to limit his activities only to work in the restaurant business, and also founded a real estate business. He also learned this in Canada. The formation of the MoscowMcDonald's was not going smoothly. It was difficult to adapt to Russian realities. However, Khasbulatov tried to solve problems as they arrived. He even had to agree on the cultivation of special potatoes in Solntsevo, and for this he brought seeds from the States. Khamzat Khamidovich set a goal for himself, and this was required by the general management of the company: everything had to correspond to the parameters generally accepted for the entire company, and not a step of retreat from them. In 1993, a multi-storey office building was built for McDonald's in Gazetny Lane.

Difficulties

Initially, most of the raw materials (80%) were imported from abroad, but after the collapse of the country and the beginning of new market relations, the import of imported products became extremely inappropriate, and then he began to think about which of the local suppliers he could contact with this question. This simple question turned out to be one of the most difficult. Khasbulatov traveled all over the country and searched, found and recruited manufacturers. Thus, Belaya Dacha became the first serious Russian supplier. However, the goods supplied by her, although they were better than those of many others, did not quite meet the requirements of McDonald's. Khamzat Khamidovich also found a solution for this: the employees had to be retrained in everything. For this, internships were organized, and the best of them were sent for consultations abroad or, conversely, foreign specialists were invited. For firms-suppliers, the latest technologies were supplied at the expense of McDonald's. Yes, at the restaurant.local high-quality raw materials appeared: greens and vegetables, both fresh and pickled. At the same time, thanks to Khasbulatov, these products began to be supplied to restaurants in other countries, which was a great help for the Russian manufacturer. Surely many people have a question about how Khamzat Khasbulatov could arrange all this. His nationality, as you know, is Chechen, and that says a lot. He knows how to achieve everything, achieve the plans. The “people of the mountains” strive for the top and do not stop at any obstacles.

Today

Khamzat Khamidovich Khasbulatov is currently the manager of the entire Eastern division of McDonald's in Europe. Over the years of its activity, the company has experienced significant growth: the McDonald's restaurant chain has more than 20 establishments, and McCafe - 38. Since 2002, the Breakfast at McDonald's project has been launched.