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The brains behind launching the famed Turkish restaurant Bosporus in Dubai, restaurateur Orkan Doganci is a celebrated name in the F&B business across theglobe. Born to a Turkish immigrant family in Troisdorf, Germany, Doganci’s love for food started at his father’s kitchen at the age of 13. Entrepreneur by nature, helearnt the tricks of the trade in his father’s many restaurants and set on his own course by the age of 27.
His fortunes rose as he opened Bosporus in Dubai with two business partners before he was 30 years old in 2011. This was the first of the chain and one ofthe largest and most prominent Turkish restaurants in Dubai.
The fast-paced F&B scene in Dubai saw Bosporus boom and become the city’s favourite in no time. Then followed the other branches in Dubai that saw equalpopularity. Post Dubai, Doganci launched his first Turkish restaurant in Istanbul
A Dubai based entrepreneur, restauranteur and someone known as “the one who makes a local restaurant brand a global brand.”
He was raised as hotelier and grew up with his family in Bodrum surrounded by the hospitality, and travel industry since his childhood.
After living across Europe in Turkey and Switzerland, he decided to make a change and move to Dubai to lead in the restaurant business as the Regional Director of QFood & Beverage. The company owns leading Restaurant brands like Huqqa and The Galliard. Both restaurants have been established for the first time outside of Turkey in Dubai and Oytun Cakir was a pioneer behind the successful expansion of local brands to the world. They are now one of the top three performing restaurants in their segments in Downtown Dubai.