The Federal Tax Service submitted a bankruptcy statement « Coffee House »
The tax authorities are trying to recognize the inconsistent in the Chocolate Group of Companies LLC Coffee House, which controls the same network of coffee houses. Ten years ago, it included more than 220 establishments throughout Russia, now their number has been reduced to only five. Despite this, in the case of bankruptcy of a subsidiary, reputation risks can affect the entire restaurant group.
The Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) No. 4 for Moscow on May 20, 2025 filed an application with the city arbitration court of the bankruptcy of LLC Coffee House, discovered Kommersant in the database of such cases. In the arbitration file, the details of the application are not given. The Federal Tax Service did not respond to the request “Kommersant”. The Chocolate Group of Companies, which includes Coffee House LLC, told Kommersant that they have not yet received an official bankruptcy statement from the tax service and have no information about the amount of the stated requirements. They emphasize that Coffee House LLC now has no assets and does not conduct any activity.
Nevertheless, the company continues to generate income. The revenue of Coffee House in 2024 decreased by 17% of the year, to 1.55 billion rubles, net profit increased by 53%, to 121.5 million rubles, and net assets at the end of the year amounted to 191.5 million rubles. indicated in the Spark.
From the database it follows that the company also has a certificate for the production of fried grain coffee, four existing licenses for the sale of alcohol in Moscow, the trademarks “Coffee House” and “Coffee and Pay” factory, premises and domains of the coffee house “Coffee House”.
The network website also states that five points are now working in Moscow. The main owner of the entire Chocolate Group is Alexander Kolobov, in 2020, his partner Siman Povarenkin came out of the company, who got the KFC, Pizza Hut and Panda Express.
If the amount of tax obligations that are not fulfilled by the debtor exceeds 2 million rubles, and also if more than three months have passed from the date of the debt, then the chances of satisfying the application are high, explains Dmitry Galantsev, the managing partner of the Prosetum lawyer. If the company has a turnover calculated by billions of rubles, but it does not have expenses and does not bear the costs of it, the amount of requirements from the Federal Tax Service can be significant, Pavel Novikov does not exclude the partner “Mellings, enter,” Pavel Novikov.
936.5 billion rubles
He compiled the turnover of the catering market in the Russian Federation in the first quarter of 2025, according to Rosstat.
If the company officially does not operate and has no assets, the probability of introducing a bankruptcy procedure is quite high, since the company, in fact, is not able to pay off debts, the lawyer Pavel Zhelnovod reasoned. The most effective way to protect the rights of creditors of the bankrupt company that has no assets is to initiate creditors to bring persons to subsidiary liability for its debts, said the adviser to the Legal Yurfire Ivan Rybakov. The bankruptcy of one of the groups of the group, as we see by the example of several Russian large businesses at once, can lead to bankruptcy and other links, depending on the scale of financial problems, does not exclude Pavel Novikov.
Earlier, Coffee House was a rather large network: in 2014 there were 226 such points throughout Russia. But after in the same year the network became part of the Chocolate Group of Civil Code, its development has practically stopped, says Nadezhda Tsvetkova, head of the rental department of retail premises Core.xp. A small number of points indicates a low demand of the format, adds the head of the IBC Real Estate trading real estate, Vladimir Chernus. According to him, today there are already other cafe formats in the trend: in the democratic segment – this is Drinkit, in the premium – Surf Coffee.
Hot coffee is now in demand, in January -March of 2025, the number of purchases throughout Russia increased by 11% year, and the average check was 12%, until 197 rubles. (See “Kommersant” from April 25).
