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Only a few days ago, reports appeared online that several Warsaw restaurants of the Inspector Gastro Group chain have not been paying their employees for months. Various businesses are faced with corresponding accusations, but according to investigations, they have the same beneficial owners — Anatolii Rainin and Kateryna Onatska.
According to the restaurant workers themselves, the problem of unpaid wages is systemic. The total arrears to the staff have already reached hundreds of thousands of zlotys, while management and the owners of the venues allegedly ignore the employees’ requests.
As a document in the editors’ possession shows, the workers address themselves directly to the management of Inspector Gastro Group sp. z o.o. They demand payment of wage arrears and other payments due to them.
The letter concerns unfulfilled obligations to the employees, and a deadline for full repayment of the debts was set. If payments do not arrive, the authors of the demand warn, they will turn to state authorities and the courts.
Public statements by employees, made public in September, describe a similar situation in at least two venues — Inspector Lounge and Canoe Lounge. According to the employees, after their shifts they were not paid, messages went unanswered, and in some cases, after demanding the money earned, contacts with the employees were cut off or they were blocked.
In this story, it is not only the mass nonpayment of earned money to the staff that stands out, but also the personalities of the business owners, who, according to the employees, did not fulfill their obligations toward their fellow countrymen.
There are at least three restaurants — Inspector Lounge, Canoe Lounge, and Senator Warsaw.
Inspector Lounge is located at ul. Zielna 37 in Warsaw. It is one of the flagship brands of the Inspector group. It is exactly the Inspector Lounge that appears most often in the employees’ recent public complaints.
The restaurant has been in operation since February 2023. Polish media had previously described it as a Ukrainian restaurant with an international menu, bar, shishas, and evening events.
The second venue — Canoe Lounge — is located at ul. Świętokrzyska 14 in Warsaw. The third — Senator Warsaw — operates at Emilii Plater 53, Warsaw Financial Center.
All three restaurants are under a single structure — Inspector Gastro Group sp. z o.o., which is the subject of the employees’ complaint mentioned above.
Key registry data of the company: KRS 0001011723, NIP 7011123690, REGON 524118960. The company was registered on 5. January 2023, its registered office is ul. Krucza 16/22, floor 607, Warsaw. The main line of business is the catering industry.
Originally the company was Golden Peach sp. z o.o. and was registered with an initial share capital of only 5.000 zlotys. Its sole shareholder was Kateryna Onatska, and the president was Rahman Rasulzade.
Later the corporate structure changed. In May 2025 the share capital was increased to 200.000 zlotys, and Anatolii Rainin appeared among the shareholders. In September 2025 Kateryna Onatska was again entered in the register.
Currently, according to the registry data, the co-owners of the company are Anatolii Rainin with a stake of 55,81% and Kateryna Onatska, 44,19%.
Notably, Anatolii Rainin is the beneficial owner of three Polish companies — Inspector Gastro Group, Inspector Warsaw, and Canoe Warsaw.
His business partner Kateryna Onatska, in turn, is the beneficial owner of two companies — Inspector Gastro Group and Peach Limited.
The latter was registered on the same day — 5. January 2023 — as the original Golden Peach sp. z o.o. The ultimate beneficial owner of Peach Limited is Kateryna Onatska, who owns 95% of the shares.
The legal address of the company is the same Warsaw address on Krucza 16/22/607, currently used by Inspector Gastro Group.
Thus, despite subsequent changes to the registry data for some of the venues at the center of the scandal, their official beneficial owners are two people — Anatolii Rainin and Kateryna Onatska.
Anatolii Rainin
The origins of one of the key figures — Anatolii Rainin — could not be established. Based on the surname, he is not ethnically Polish. At the same time, Anatolii Rainin is listed in the registry documents as a Polish citizen.
In the Inspector Gastro Group structure, he appears in May 2025. The other large stake belongs to Kateryna Onatska.
At the same time, Anatolii Rainin is not the managing director of Inspector Gastro Group: the chairman remains Rahman Rasulzade, who has held that post since the company’s registration in January 2023.
Anatolii Rainin himself sits on the board together with Kateryna Onatska and Lev Rainin. Thus, Rainin, according to the latest available entry in the KRS, is one of the central co-owners of the company and also serves on its governing body.
Registry data also show Rainin as the beneficial owner of other gastronomic structures, notably Inspector Warsaw and Canoe Warsaw. At the same time, in checked open sources, no reliable information about his prior entrepreneurial activities before 2025 could be found.
The connection to Lev Rainin, who also sits on the Inspector Gastro Group’s board and is clearly older than Anatolii Rainin, is shown in the registers only by their joint participation in the company’s leadership. Whether they are related is unknown, though such a possibility cannot be ruled out.
Kateryna Onatska
Kateryna Onatska is not ethnically Polish either, but she has a longer history of business involvement in Poland. Polish registers indicate she holds Ukrainian citizenship and resides in Poland. Therefore, it can be assumed that her name in Ukrainian documents is Kateryna Onatska.
Her entrepreneurial activity in Poland can be traced at least back to 2018, directly in the gastronomy and service sector since the early 2020s.
In particular, when registering the Esco Group sp. z o.o. in May 2021, Kateryna Onatska was its sole owner: she owned all 100 shares worth 5.000 zlotys. She also held the position of chairwoman. Later, in December 2021, Rahman Rasulzade became owner and head of Esco Group.
In Inspector Gastro Group, which originally bore the name Golden Peach, Kateryna Onatska joined the board in July 2024. In May 2025 she left the board and also exited the circle of co-owners. In the same period, Anatolii Rainin appeared in the corporate structure.
But already on 24. September 2025 Kateryna Onatska again became a co-owner by taking 38 shares worth 76.000 zlotys. At the same time she joined the board.
According to publicly available data, the co-owners — Anatolii Rainin and Kateryna Onatska — may be directly involved in the story of unpaid wages to employees of the Inspector Gastro Group restaurants. Moreover, a substantial portion of the staff at these venues are Ukrainian citizens.
These are people who have established themselves in Poland and work in the hospitality sector. For this reason, the situation with unpaid wages owed to them deserves attention not only from the employees themselves but also from Polish regulatory and law-enforcement authorities.
The further development of this matter will show whether the employees’ statements and their demands for repayment of the debts will lead to legal consequences for the management and co-owners of Inspector Gastro Group.
In Poland as in other EU countries, workers’ rights are legally protected. 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 "Über Monate ohne Lohn: Wie Anatolii Rainin und Kateryna Onatska die Beschäftigten der Warschauer Inspector Gastro Group um ihren Verdienst prellen". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Rozsliduvach.
