WHAT'S BEHIND THE SUCESS OF MARTIN MACÍK?
When Martin Macík first started thinking about opening his own café, it wasn’t the result of any strategic analysis – it was more a natural evolution of two worlds coming together: his and his wife’s. She had spent years in gastronomy, gradually working her way up to a management position. He [...]
IT'S BETTER IN THREES
Pilot Café keeps growing – and this time, in a slightly different way. While we’re still looking for the perfect location for our third café, we’ve already welcomed a new addition to the team – we’re excited to introduce Tereza, our new operations manager! Tereza started with us as a barista, then went on to lead [...]
OPENING OF THE SECOND BRANCH IN PRAGUE!
Every pilot has a co-pilot, and that's why when we discovered a cafe space in Prague 4 looking for a new owner, we took it as a signal from the control tower and decided to set out for the next adventure. Our first-born cafe on Letná is doing well, [...]
NEW ERA, NEW DESIGN
While layoffs were happening elsewhere and it seemed that baristas, waitresses and chefs were professions of the past, we gritted our teeth and took on new team members who happened to have previously worked on board an airplane. Who else would [...]
COVID TURBULENCE
Lockdown. Only about 5 months have passed since the opening of our cafe, and we immediately had to close its doors again due to government orders. For a while we thought that the beginning of the pandemic would also be the beginning of the end of our still brand new cafe, but since [...]
FIRST FLIGHT
Who wouldn't want to improve someone's day every morning with a cup of quality coffee or a piece of something good? The dream of our own cafe, in which everything will take place according to our ideas and where we will be able to use more than 20 years of experience from the environment [...]
