How Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs are changing Poland
They are affecting its high street—and its diet
“Poles are conservative,” complains Ernest Suleimanov, who in January opened Warsaw’s first Crimean Tatar restaurant. Customers love his chebureki (meat pastries) but have trouble with the digital menus that are ubiquitous in tech-savvy Ukraine. Mr Suleimanov is one of more than a million Ukrainians living in Poland, many of them refugees from Russia’s invasion. Now they are reshaping the country’s high street: since the war started, Ukrainians have opened some 8% of all new sole-proprietor businesses, and the number keeps rising.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Pierogi, by any other name”
Europe July 22nd 2023
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