After the bankruptcy of "Tasty Gorilla": New host family takes over on May 1st

Created: 04/27/2022, 06:14

By: Andreas Höger

New hosts: Hasan Kaskiran (r.) leases the former "Tasty Gorilla" in Föching from May 1 and wants to continue running it under a new name - as a modern village restaurant with burgers, but also with schnitzel and a "small" menu.

Daughter Hatice and son Eren, who learned from Dallmayr in Munich, will help with this.

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The "Tasty Gorilla" was once.

The landlord of the Föchinger BBQ restaurant had to file for bankruptcy in March.

A successor has already been found: Hasan Kaskiran takes over the former Föchinger Hof.

The 45-year-old wants to respond more to the wishes of the village community again, for the first time on May 1st.

Föching

– After only three years, the “Tasty Gorilla” is over: landlord Steven Keller (53) launched his trendy gastronomic concept, which relied on burgers, barbecue and Tex-Mex, in January 2019.

The market town as the lessor chose him as the successor to Hans Sprenger.

Keller rebuilt for 150,000 euros and took off.

The Föchinger offshoot initially built on the success that Keller celebrated in 2017 with his first "Tasty Gorilla" in his home town of Eggenfelden.

The sales were good, but the relationship with the village community was difficult from the start.

"He made it clear to us that he didn't need us for his business," remembers Michael Wohlschläger, managing director of the village community GbR, which organizes events.

In the 2020 carnival season, the lads' club carried out a borderline hearty gorilla prank, which drove Keller up the wall.

"The atmosphere was poisoned," says Wohlschläger.

Further information on the subject can be found here.

Despite the corona restrictions approaching, Keller continued to expand: He opened more "Gorillas" in Mühldorf and Hallbergmoos.

In the end, however, there was not enough strength to get through the pandemic: all four locations closed at the end of November.

The insolvency proceedings were opened on March 1st.

It was Keller himself who made Föching palatable to his successor.

"He wanted me to join him," says Hasan Kaskiran, "but we didn't come to an agreement." But the 45-year-old was impressed by the location.

"Föching laughed at me." He had been a landlord himself in Unterföhring, but had given up the restaurant at the beginning of the Corona period.

The Kirchheimer has been running a delicatessen catering business for almost 15 years, and since 2015 his "Saure Ecke" has been an insider tip at Munich's Viktualienmarkt.

"I know the industry," says Kaskiran.

Fixed partition in the hall should disappear

When he expressed his interest in the town hall, Mayor Christoph Schmid scheduled a meeting with the local councillors.

"It went well, a completely different atmosphere," reports Wohlschläger.

Kaskiran wants to set up a small family business in Föching.

Son Eren (20) trained at Dallmayr in Munich, daughter Hatice (22) is a tax specialist.

There will continue to be burgers on the menu, but there will also be a “small menu” and “what the clubs want,” announced Kaskiran.

According to Wohlschläger, a lunch menu for craftsmen is also being considered.

The dividing wall in the hall put in by Keller is to disappear and be replaced by a flexible room divider.

Since the chemistry between village and host seems to fit, Schmid agreed to a five-year lease.

"But it must be clear that an innkeeper cannot live on his own from the people of Föching," emphasizes the mayor.

Kaskiran cannot say when the traditional Föchinger restaurant will open again.

In the course of the insolvency proceedings of the previous lessee, it is necessary to clarify which equipment can be taken over.

The 45-year-old does not want to reveal the new name yet.

Just this much: "No more gorillas, it will be a local name." The host family introduces itself gastronomically on May 1st, when the maypole is erected.

"We support the clubs and cook food in the beer garden," says Kaskiran.

Maypole in Föching:

After 2018, boys and folks in traditional costume will once again set up a maypole next to the former "Föchinger Hof".

It starts at 10 a.m., with white sausages.

At lunchtime, fish on a fish stick and grilled food are the order of the day, accompanied by the music of the Holzkirchen band.

The village community GbR takes care of the drinks.