Pizza Hut opens in the Maldives
Long queues were seen outside the Pizza Hut outlet on Thursday morning when it opened to the public at 11:00 am.
29 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
The Maldives’ first Pizza Hut outlet was officially launched Wednesday night at a festive ceremony in the capital, the most high-profile fast food chain to open in the city to date.
Economic Minister Mohamed Saeed opened the outlet in Malé Square which can cater for 70 dine-in customers.
Long queues were seen outside the outlet on Thursday morning when it opened to the public at 11:00 am.
The joint venture company Gamma Island Foods, which operates the outlet, comprises the local firm Island Food Maldives and India’s Gamma Pizzakraft Overseas, which runs more than 300 branches of Pizza Hut and KFC in India and Sri Lanka.
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