Kolkata-based Speciality Group of Restaurants, a leading restaurant chain in the country, plans to introduce its restaurant brands like Oh! Calcutta, Sigree and Machaan in Orissa by March 2010.
The group is also exploring the possibility of opening standalone restaurants that would exclusively serve the Oriya delicacies.
Addressing media persons at the opening of the group’s Mainland China restaurant in the city, Anjan Chatterjee, managing director, Speciality Group of Restaurants said, “We are thinking of bringing our other restaurant brands to Orissa like Oh! Calcutta, Sigree and Machaan. Our group is also looking at the possibility of opening standalone restaurants focussed on Oriya cuisine.”
Debasish Patanaik, director, Crown Hotel-Bhubaneswar said, “We had been contemplating to have a quality Chinese restaurant in our hotel and Mainland China was the best choice.”
The group which runs 52 food and beverage outlets across the country is aiming to ramp up its network to 100 by the end of this fiscal.
It is eyeing at revenue of Rs 200 crore in this fiscal as against Rs 146 crore in 2008-09.
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Specialiy Group, which is run by more than 2,500 people, has set up the Mainland Institute of Oriental Catering in Kolkata keeping in view the group’s increasing requirement for hospitality professionals to meet its expansion plans.
The group is also keen on setting up an institute in Bhubaneswar. The restaurant chain, which opened the first Mainland China restaurant in 1993, has so far invested around Rs 300 crore on its operations. China restaurant in the city is the 53 rd restaurant opened by the Speciality Group of Restaurants. It is the second restaurant of the group in the city after Haka.
Mainland China is the flagship brand of the Speciality Group with 17 standalone outlets in the country. This restaurant is present in cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Nashik and Baroda.
The other restaurant brands of the Speciality Group include Sweet Bengal, Just Biriyani and Mostly Kabab.