Franchising
Subway eyes bigger bite of the market
After tweaking its menu to suit the Indian palate, fastfood brand Subway plans to expand its presence across IT parks, highways, hospitals and food courts. “At least 30 per cent of our new stores will be in nontraditional formats, such as highways and IT parks. The rent in such locations is much less compared with […]
Starbucks opens two more stores in Bangalore
Tata Starbucks has opened two more Starbucks outlets in Bangalore, taking its total number of outlets to three. Bangalore has special significance for the chain since it is the nerve centre of Cafe Coffee Day, the rival retail coffee chain with around 1500 outlets across the country. The new stores have come up at Phoenix […]
British giant SSP to enter India
British food and travel service company SSP Global is planning to enter India and launch three of its brands—bakery chains Millie’s Cookies and Upper Crust, and coffee shop chain Ritazza—by the first quarter of 2018. SSP Global, a £2 billion company listed on London Stock Exchange, operates more than 400 food and beverage brands (and […]
‘Delhiites consume maximum burgers in India’
Delhi is on top of a list of Indian cities which consume the maximum burgers, indicates a survey by online food ordering marketplace Foodpanda on the occasion of International Burger Day Wednesday. The study was conducted to understand how many burgers Foodpanda customers ordered over the past three months (till May 26), and to compare […]
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading seeing sales growth
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Co. Ltd, which runs the Café Coffee Day chain, has been seeing sales growth drop over the past two years as slowing economic growth and high inflation hurt demand, and increased competition in India’s dining and fast food market eat into the coffee chain’s share. The company, founded and owned by […]
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