Date:01/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/01/stories/2008100155861000.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

McDonald’s sets up two retail outlets

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: McDonald’s India (Hardcastle Restaurants) on Friday opened two “Full Scale” and “Free Standing Drive Thru” restaurants at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited’s (BPCL) retail outlets on Kasturba Road in Bangalore and at Channapatna on the Bangalore-Mysore highway.

The Kasturba Road restaurant is spread over an area of 2,800 sq ft, while the Channapatna outlet is spread over an area of 3,000 sq ft.

The restaurants are part of the strategic tie-up between McDonald’s India (West and South) and BPCL to set up and operate restaurants at BPCL petrol bunks in the country, said a release.

Eight more

McDonald’s plans to set up eight more restaurants at select BPCL retail outlets in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram–Kochi Highway and on Kochi-Coimbatore Highway by 2009 with the next McDonald’s-BPCL outlet coming up at Khed Shivapur on the Pune–Kolhapur-Bangalore highway.