NRI-promoted fast food chain ChicKing Fried Chicken is planning to open 200 global outlets, including 100 in India, by 2012 with an investment of Rs 200 crore.
The effort is to make the brand global for which Chicking was all set to spread its wings to various countries, including Germany, Singapore and Malaysia, NRI businessman and Managing Director of ChicKing A K Mansoor told reporters at nearby Aluva after launching the 16th Indian outlet.
The outlet was inaugurated yesterday by child actors of Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire — Rubina Ali Quereshi, Ayush Khedekar, Tanvi Lonkar and Azharuddin Mohammed.
Fourteen more outlets would be opened in India taking the total outlets to 30 by 2009-end, he said.
ChicKing, with over 20 operating outlets in the Middle East, will soon have presence in four African countries - Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya.
It was established in the United Arab Emirates in 2000 under Banquet Foods International (part of the Dubai based Al Bayan Group of Companies).
The Aluva outlet will have a play area with a separate kids dine-in where they could eat and watch their favourite cartoons with dedicated head phones for each kid. A total of 5 LCDs have been installed and each table can comfortably seat 3 kids, he said.
