The new additions would be available at McCafe outlets operated by the West and South franchise of McDonald's – Hardcastle Restaurants.
The National Anti-profiteering Authority’s order against Hardcastle Restaurants exposes a lot of the gaps and lack of cohesion in the NAA’s provisions.
The city-based company in a bid to attract millenials and double its customer base to 500 million, has been introducing low-calorie, low-fat alternatives in its menu, along with introducing local flavours.
Hardcastle Restaurants, the franchisee of McDonald's for South-West India operations, will continue to pay 4 percent royalty to the American QSR operator till March 31, 2018.
The revenues for the quarter stood at Rs 241.75 crore, up 14.6 per cent year-on-year, from Rs 210.9 crore Topline performance growth was driven by restaurant network expansion, addition of new formats, brand extensions and innovative menu additions, WDL said in a statement here.
Westlife Development (WDL), the master franchisee for US fast-food chain McDonald's in the west and south India, narrowed loss to Rs 3.3 crore in the quarter ended September 30 from Rs 9.4 crore in the same period last year.
Hardcastle Restaurants, the franchisee of McDonald's for West and South India operations, plans to invest Rs 750 crore in next 5-7 years to double the outlets of the fast food chain to 500 in the two regions.
In its 20th year of operations in India, McDonald's India will sharpen focus on innovation, delivery business, and brand extensions like McCafe in 2016, that have "significantly boosted" the company's revenues in the past year, Smita Jatia, MD of Hardcastle Restaurants, the master franchisee of McDonald's India (West and South) told PTI.
Hardcastle Restaurants, which runs the franchisee for McDonald's in the Western and Southern regions, said it is merging with its parent company Westlife Development.
McDonald's Corp's Indian franchisee plans to set up 30 new restaurants in the southern and western parts of the country this year, as part of the restaurant chain's expansion plans in Asia's third-largest economy, a top executive said.