Genkenaar Dogan Ercan (26) is the boss of nine escape rooms and three catering businesses: “When I was fourteen I played AliExpress on the playground with a lunch box full of gadgets for sale” | Genk

We could meet in one of the escape rooms in Arlon, Mons, Charleroi, Antwerp, Deinze, Namur, Genk, Hasselt or Roeselare or in his catering business in Genk, where Dogan grew up, but no, we opt for his recently opened pizza restaurant in Hasselt. Leopoldplein, near Dogan’s current residence. “Liège, Mechelen and Bruges, where we will soon open three escape rooms, were also options,” he laughs. “And even an expansion to Frankfurt, in Germany, is on the wish list.”

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