Restaurants | The iconic Helsinki restaurant was sold to its owner 75 years ago

Helsinki The restaurant operations of Lasipalats, located in the city center, are changing hands.

Ravintolakolmio will sell the Lasipalats restaurants to HOK-Elanno from July. In the store, the staff will become employees of HOK-Elanto.

The store includes Ravintola Lasipalatsi, Café Lasipalatsi and Lasipalatsi Laituri terrace and Bio Rex’s catering.

At issue is the largest sales store in Ravintolakolmio’s 45-year history. It ran the Lasipalats restaurants for 25 years. The background of the sale is the effect of the corona pandemic on the restaurant industry.

For the S group, the deal is part of the strategy reform of the restaurant side.

Lasipalatsi is already familiar to HOK-Elanno, as it was involved in building the Lasipalatsi and running the restaurants.

Depending on the source, HOK or SOK together with Valio rented the Lasipalats plot from the city of Helsinki in 1935. Together they built a building representing the functionalism of the 1930s, which was completed in 1936.

HOK-Elanto was responsible for restaurant operations until 1949.

of the S group the largest cooperative HOK-Elanno has almost 80 restaurants in the capital region. Well-known restaurants in the center of Helsinki include Kappeli, Zetor and Vltava.

The turnover of HOK-Elanto’s restaurant industry in 2023 was EUR 93 million and the restaurants have approximately 670 employees.

Ravintolakolmio Group is a family business that includes restaurants located in the capital region, such as Meripaviljonki and Juttutupa. Its turnover in 2022 was 17.6 million euros and there were 114 employees.

Details: 18.6. 12:42 p.m.: Clarified the part that tells about the tenant of Lasipalats with Valio in 1935. Depending on the source, it was HOK or SOK.