Gatto Nero Restaurant Franchise – Become a Host of a Unique Culinary Experience
Create your own Gatto Nero — with our support, your passion, and a shared story.
Looking to open your own restaurant with soul? Trattoria Gatto Nero offers a franchise model for partners who share our passion for authentic Mediterranean cuisine, warm hospitality, and emotional storytelling. Become part of a brand that generated over one million euros in its first year of operation.
Franchise Benefits
What the Gatto Nero Franchise Includes:
- License to use the name, recipes, and visual identity
- Staff training and operational support
- Right to local adaptation while preserving brand soul
- Access to shared marketing and emotional brand guide
- Transparent financial model with ROI in 15–30 months
Ideal partners aren’t just seeking a business opportunity — they want to be guardians of emotion.
“If you believe that food can be a memory, that hospitality begins with a glance, and that a brand lives through its people — you might just be our next companion.” says Tvrtković.
Interested partners can download the franchise booklet and schedule a personal conversation via email:
gn@gattonero.eu
Founder’s Message
“Trattoria Gatto Nero isn’t just a restaurant. It’s a place where the plate tells a story.” says Marinko Tvrtković, founder of the brand.
“Our guests don’t come just to eat. They come to feel warmth, story, and sea. And our partners don’t manage a restaurant — they live it.”
Who Is the Ideal Partner?
We’re looking for partners who aren’t just seeking a business opportunity — but want to be guardians of emotion.
If you believe food can be a memory, that hospitality begins with a glance, and that a brand lives through its people — you might be our next companion. .
Download the Franchise Booklet and discover how to open Gatto Nero in your city.
For a personal conversation, contact us at:
Philosophy and Values of Trattoria Gatto Nero
A brand that isn’t managed. A brand that is lived. A brand that is loved.
1. Gatto Nero is not a restaurant. Gatto Nero is a feeling.
Born from the sea, shaped by the island, matured in Malinska.
Gatto Nero is a place where the plate isn’t served — it’s narrated.
Where the guest isn’t a number — but a story.
Where dinner isn’t a meal — but a memory.
2. We cook with heart. Not for the recipe, but for the moment.
Every ingredient has a source.
Every hand has intention.
Every glance carries warmth.
Gatto Nero doesn’t strive for perfection — but for sincerity.
Because what remains is not the taste, but the feeling.
3. The guest is our companion. Not a consumer.
At Gatto Nero, every guest arrives with a reason.
Perhaps to celebrate. Perhaps to grieve. Perhaps to return.
Our task is to welcome them as a friend, and send them off as family.
No scripts. No masks. Only truth.
4. Every location must breathe locally, but feel the shared pulse.
A Gatto Nero franchise is not a copy.
It is a new chapter of the same book.
It must have its own terroir, its own rhythm, its own people — but it must carry the shared emotion.
The sea in its eyes. The island in its heart.
5. A brand is not protected by a logo. A brand is protected by behavior.
The way we greet.
The way we listen.
The way we pour the wine.
These are our trademarks.
The logo is just a reminder.
The soul is passed on through gestures.
6. Togetherness, not control.
Partners are not subordinates.
They are guardians of emotion.
Every franchise must have the freedom to grow — but the responsibility not to forget.
Because Gatto Nero is not a business.
Gatto Nero is a vow.
7. The Manifesto of Hospitality
When a guest enters, let them feel the scent of the sea.
When they sit, let them feel the warmth of home.
When they eat, let them taste the story.
When they leave, let them carry a memory.
💛 Core Principles
Gatto Nero is not a chain. Gatto Nero is a feeling.
Every location must carry the local spirit, but share the common emotion — the one born in Malinska.
We cook with heart. Not for the recipe, but for the moment.
The guest is not a number. They are a story.
The plate is not a product. It is a memory.
Gatto Nero is where Rab, Krk, and Novigrad meet in a single bite.
Every franchise must understand that — and live it.
Because Gatto Nero is not managed.
Gatto Nero is felt.
For those who choose to live the brand — not manage it.
This document is not a manual.
Not a guideline.
Not a strategy.
It is a promise.
A vow that Gatto Nero will remain what it truly is — no matter where it takes root.
That it won’t be lost in numbers, procedures, or spreadsheets.
That it will preserve what made guests feel something, raise a glass, and return.
If you’re here, it means you’ve felt something.
Something that can’t be explained — but can be lived.
Something that isn’t measured only by revenue, but by the guest’s smile.
Welcome to Gatto Nero.
A place that doesn’t seek perfection — it seeks sincerity.
A place where we don’t just build a business — we build memories.
This manifesto is an invitation.
To protect the emotion together.
To write the next chapter of the same story — together.
Marinko Tvrtković - Founder
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