About Us
M.M.Y. comes from the first letters of Mevlüt Şimşek’s children, Muhammet, Mert and Yağmur.
Mevlüt Şimşek, who came to Istanbul from MERSİN in 1998, decided to make tantuni in a small wooden hut inside the OPET gas station on the Cemal Ulusuy Cad Basın Ekspres road… He named his company “MMY”, which is formed from the first letters of his children, Muhammet Mert and Yağmur… The company he started with 4 tables and 16 stools on 15 square meters has now become a company with more than 30 employees.
MMY quality in taste.
Mevlüt Şimşek explains the secret of his success with these words. ‘A person wants to believe, to crown the end of the road to success with hope. A person wants to believe to make sense of what he has achieved with his soul and every limb, and a person wants to believe to be able to say, “I am glad” at the point he stands today, with a little hope; but the good thing about having believed in life is that my success is seen so big by people on this path that I set out on with faith.’
MMY TANTUNI, Mevlüt ŞİMŞEK.
Mevlüt ŞİMŞEK, who started his business in 1987 with home cooked meal and döner in a small restaurant in Mersin, he quickly established himself in Mersin and his döner began to attract great attention. However,Mr Mevlüt’s love for the profession was so great that he decided to integrate and spread tantuni, which is only known in Mersin in Turkey and is about to be forgotten, with his own style and skill, instead of the döner that everyone knows. He decided to come to Istanbul on the long and difficult path he embarked on.
Mevlüt Şimşek, who came to Istanbul from MERSİN in 1998. He decided to make tantuni in a small wooden hut inside the OPET gas station on the Basın Ekspres road on Cemal Ulusuy Cad… He named his company “MMY”, which consists of the initials of his children, Muhammet Mert and Yağmur… He turned the company, which he started with 4 tables and 16 chairs on a 15 square meter area, into a company with more than 30 employees.
In order to produce a different flavor than the generally known tantuni, Mevlüt Bey organized a trip to Afyonkarahisar, Tekirdağ and Tokat regions and combined the meat he obtained from the beef, a livestock animal raised by the local people, with his own style of tantuni special garnish with a little sincerity, a little love, a little discipline, quality and experience and produced a formula. He presented this flavor to all guests coming from 15 different cultures and continents with great confidence and pride. Since it was a different flavor, MMY TANTUNİ began to be perceived as a place of discovery. Tantuni, which managed to become a favorite flavor and taste; was recognized in 15 and more cultures in a short time and managed to create tantuni regulars in Istanbul. It was presented to people’s taste because taste is a driving force, and as taste became known, demand increased. As demand increased, Mr Mevlüt started to experiment more to make tantuni even more beautiful. In fact, these attempts were a test of Mevlüt ŞİMŞEK’s uncontrollable curiosity about cooking and the history of food culture.
The trials yielded results and a different taste for Istanbulites and a solid foundation was laid for Mr. Mevlüt to get a little closer. This foundation was laid so healthily and lovingly that it grew a little more each day and in 2011, its commercial name was changed to “ÖZMAY GIDA TURİZM İNŞ. SAN. ve TİC. LTD. ŞTİ.” and its nameplate was MMY TANTUNİ, and another step was taken to increase the service production…
Since the day it was opened, Mmy Tantuni has tried to keep itself out of the understanding that is generally seen as a way to make easy money. Despite the feeling of alienation towards tantuni in Istanbul due to the respect and knowledge he has for his job, Mr. Mevlüt did not limit the profession to himself and decided to train masters for the profession in order to provide more interest to both the sector and the people. And now, in all of MMY tantuni restaurants, the taste masters trained by Mr. Mevlüt serve the guests with the same taste, quality and concept.
MMY TANTUNİ has expanded its horizons even further with the suggestions and supports of its valued guests. With its innovative and enterprising spirit, it undertakes a mission to increase competition and revitalize the sector. MMY Tantuni, in addition to looking at the sector from its own window, has an approach that adopts it as a duty to look at it from the eyes of the consumer through sales channels. MMY Tantuni, which has a command of the product at every stage from livestock farming to slaughterhouse; from production to the consumer’s table, has a company policy that does not compromise on delicious, healthy and hygienic quality regardless of the sales channel and consumption channel. The experience and suggestions of you, our valued flavor explorers, MMY TANTUNİ founder MEVLÜT ŞİMŞEK, who has managed to become the indispensable address of tantuni produced with the amateur spirit excitement of the professional flavor team, says;
Our specialness comes from your specialness. The flavor that started in a hut has become a flavor that thousands of people from 15 different cultures know today. MMY Tantuni, which strives to offer you the best and the most special, feels a debt of gratitude to you. MMY Tantuni, which does not forget its past and embraces the future, kneads love and produces flavor. “We are at your service with our commitment to all commercial and human values, our passion for creating an indispensable flavor, the power of being a demanded brand and our valued friends…
To be a leading and indispensable organization that offers our products, which are integrated with health, knowledge, skill and mastery, along with the taste of our customers, with our country-specific style in Turkey and the World arena.
To be the leader in our category by integrating quality, health, hygiene, trust, craftsmanship, comfort and sincerity to the palate in the sector.
MMY Tantuni offers comprehensive solutions for increasing the efficiency of business processes, restructuring and ensuring that the food sector plays a more effective role, which will play an important role in Turkey’s development and integration with the European Union:
MMY Tantuni Values
- Reliability and Experience,
- Cleanliness and Hygiene
- High sense of responsibility,
- Quality awareness,
- Belief in continuous development,
- Devotion to business ethics,
- It has value-added cooperation values that exceed customer expectations.
As Mmy tantuni staff, which undertakes a mission to increase competition with its innovative and enterprising spirit and brings vitality to the sector, we are an innovative team consisting of professionals who are excited and passionate about their work and have an amateur spirit excitement.
We work at Mmy tantuni because we love our job and want to do the best in everything we do. We do not hesitate to think for ourselves, on the contrary, we find it dangerous not to think.
We do not give up common sense in the workplace, but we reject negative thinking, skepticism and gossip.
We both value our humanitarianism and make compromises, but we continue on our way by learning from our mistakes.
We love to laugh and we take care to make eye contact while talking.
We live strictly by our standards because we are known for these standards.
We think that we have the best chefs of Tantuni and we are proud of the flavors we offer.
We want discipline in everything we do, but we avoid being too formal. Because we like to carry these values in our hearts and apply them in our daily lives.
We believe that competencies are very important, but we think that this should also be supported by our character.
We advocate transparent and inspiring leadership and like to lead by example.
We prefer relational authorization rather than positional authority.
We pay great attention to details because these details make us different from our competitors.
We believe in a balanced lifestyle, we love our company and work. In this formation, we think and discuss what we think to strengthen competition and insist on the benefit of the company.
We are so loyal to the company that we all have the spirit of the company as much as the founder of the company. We like to sell the invisible to our guests, caress their hearts before the product and ensure that they are satisfied with our love. We think about our principles and every item mentioned in the trainings and for the happiness of our guests down to the smallest detail and are careful not to make mistakes.
We are happy in our jobs, we are different and privileged because we are a perfectionist team as the MMY family. We love our boss and our job, but we do not neglect our friends, family and ourselves.
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