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Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
Literally a few days ago messages appeared online that in Warsaw restaurants of the Inspector Gastro Group network they have been withholding employees' wages for months. The restaurants that faced claims are several, but as the investigation shows, they are owned by common beneficiaries — Anatolii Rainin and Kateryna Onatska.
According to the restaurant employees themselves, the problem of unpaid money is systemic. The total debt to the staff has already reached hundreds of thousands of zlotys, while the administration and owners of the establishments, according to the employees, simply ignore their appeals.
As appears from a document in the possession of the editorial office, employees address the management of Inspector Gastro Group sp. z o.o. directly. They demand to repay the salary debt and other payments due to them.
The document refers to unmet obligations to employees and sets a deadline for the full repayment of the debt. If payments are not made, the authors of the demand warn of appealing to state authorities and the court.
Public statements by employees that appeared in September describe a similar situation in at least two establishments — Inspector Lounge and Canoe Lounge. According to employees, after working shifts they did not receive money, messages went unanswered, and in some cases after demands to pay the earned money, contacts with employees were terminated or blocked.
What stands out in this story is not only the fact of mass non-payment of earned wages to hired workers, but also the identities of the business owners, who, according to employees, did not fulfill their obligations to fellow citizens.
The case concerns at least three restaurants — Inspector Lounge, Canoe Lounge and Senator Warsaw.
Inspector Lounge is located at Zielna Street 37 in Warsaw. It is one of the key brands of the Inspector group. It is Inspector Lounge that most often figures in fresh public complaints from employees.
The restaurant has been operating since February 2023. Earlier Polish media described it as a Ukrainian restaurant with an international menu, a bar, hookahs, and evening events.
The second establishment — Canoe Lounge, located at Świętokrzyska Street 14 in Warsaw. The third — Senator Warsaw, operating at Emilii Plater Street 53, Warszawa Financial Center.
All three restaurants are united in a single entity — Inspector Gastro Group sp. z o.o., referenced in the employees' complaint mentioned above.
Main company registration data: KRS 0001011723, NIP 7011123690, REGON 524118960. The company was registered 5 January 2023, its legal address is ul. Krucza 16/22 lok. 607, Warsaw. Primary line of business — restaurant business.
Initially the company was named Golden Peach sp. z o.o. and was registered with a charter capital of only 5 thousand zlotys. Its sole participant was Kateryna Onatska, and the president was Rahman Rasulzade.
Later the company structure changed. In May 2025 the charter capital was increased to 200 thousand zlotys, and Anatolii Rainin joined as a participant. In September 2025 the register again recorded Kateryna Onatska.
Currently, according to the register data, the co-owners of the company are Anatolii Rainin with a share of 55,81% and Kateryna Onatska, who owns 44,19%.
It should be noted that Anatolii Rainin is a beneficiary owner of three Polish companies — Inspector Gastro Group, Inspector Warsaw and Canoe Warsaw.
His partner Kateryna Onatska, in turn, is a beneficiary owner of two companies — Inspector Gastro Group and Peach Limited.
The latter was registered on the same day — 5 January 2023, and Kateryna Onatska is the ultimate beneficial owner of Peach Limited, owning 95% of the shares.
The company's legal address is the same Warsaw address on Krucza 16/22/607, which Inspector Gastro Group currently uses.
Thus, despite further changes to registration data in some establishments around which a scandal has erupted, their official beneficiaries are two people — Anatolii Rainin and Kateryna Onatska.
Anatolii Rainin
The origin of one of the figures — Anatolii Rainin — could not be established. Judging by the surname, he is not ethnically Polish. At the same time, in registration documents Anatolii Rainin is listed as a Polish citizen.
In the structure of Inspector Gastro Group he appears in May 2025. The second large stake belongs to Kateryna Onatska.
At the same time, Anatolii Rainin is not the head of Inspector Gastro Group: the head of the board remains Rahman Rasulzade, who has held this position since the company was registered in January 2023.
themselves, Anatolii Rainin is on the supervisory board together with Kateryna Onatska and Lev Rainin. Thus, according to the latest available entry in the KRS, Rainin is one of the key co-owners of the company and also sits on its supervisory body.
Below is a Ukrainian adaptation for the media: I preserve the facts but remove calques and overly publicistic phrasing so that the text sounds natural for a Ukrainian publication.
Through registers Rainin also appears as a beneficiary of other structures connected with the restaurant business, in particular Inspector Warsaw and Canoe Warsaw. At the same time, in open sources checked, there is no reliable information about his previous entrepreneurial activity before 2025 year.
The connection with Lev Rainin, who is also on the Inspector Gastro Group supervisory board and is much older than Anatolii Rainin, is confirmed by registers only as a fact of joint participation in the company's governance. Whether they are relatives is unknown, though such a possibility is not excluded.
Kateryna Onatska
Kateryna Onatska is also not ethnically Polish, but has a significantly longer history of participation in Polish business. According to Polish registries, Kateryna Onatska has Ukrainian citizenship and Polish residence. Therefore, it can be assumed that in Ukrainian documents her name and surname are given as Kateryna Onatska.
Her entrepreneurial activity in Poland is traceable at least from 2018, and directly in the restaurant-service sector from the beginning of 2020.
In particular, during the registration of the company Esco Group sp. z o.o. in May 2021 Kateryna Onatska was its sole owner: she owned all 100 shares with a total value of 5 thousand zlotys. She also held the position of president of the management board. Subsequently, in December 2021, the owner and head of Esco Group became Rahman Rasulzade.
In Inspector Gastro Group, which initially had the name Golden Peach, Kateryna Onatska joined the board in July 2024. In May 2025 she left the board and at the same time exited as a co-owner. In the same period, Anatolii Rainin appeared in the structure.
However, already in 24 September 2025 Kateryna Onatska again became a co-owner of the company, receiving 38 shares worth 76 thousand zlotys. At the same time she joined the supervisory board.
Thus, according to publicly available data, the people who may be directly involved in the unpaid wages story of Inspector Gastro Group restaurants are their co-owners — Anatolii Rainin and Kateryna Onatska. At the same time, judging by available information, a significant portion of the staff at these establishments are Ukrainian citizens.
We are talking about people who ended up in Poland and work in the restaurant sector. Therefore the situation with unpaid wages requires attention not only from the employees themselves but also from Polish supervisory and law enforcement authorities.
Further developments of this story will show whether the employees' statements and their demands to repay the debt will have legal consequences for the management and co-owners of Inspector Gastro Group.
In Poland, as in other EU countries, workers' rights are protected by law. So the question now is how this story will end for Polish citizen Anatolii Rainin and Ukrainian citizen Kateryna Onatska.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Власники Inspector Gastro Group залишають працівників у Варшаві без виплат на сотні тисяч злотих: зарплату не віддають по кілька місяців". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Rozsliduvach.
