At McD, it's what you see is what you pay

While consumers may have ignored the legal battles plaguing the franchise in north and east India, closure of restaurants is not something they are likely to ignore. IMAGE: A McDonald's outlet, with its shutters down, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, outside Delhi. Photograph: @costlylovewins/Twitter. Caught in the bitter bickering that has engulfed Connaught Place Restaurants and the US headquarted McDonald’s, how does Brand McDonald’s hold on to its turf in India? By keeping the ...

If you think a restaurant has charged you more money for food in the name of GST or a cab driver has asked for extra buck for his services, you can now check the exact amount you need to pay on a mobile app launched by the government. The finance ministry ...

Retailers Association of India (RAI), the apex body of retailers today hailed the Goods & Services Tax (GST) as a game changer a launched a help desk for the member retailers. The helpdesk will address queries of the retailers by subject matter experts and ...

Impresa Hospitality is planning pan India and overseas expansion of its Maroosh brand with 300 restaurants in the next five years, a top company executive said. "Currently we have 15 outlets under Maroosh brand, which is a quick service concept restaurant ...

McDonald’s problems couldn’t have surfaced at a worse time. Cut-throat competition, rapid expansion and a slowdown in consumer spending in the wake of demonetisation have seriously dented the overall quick-service restaurant business. IMAGE: McDonald's in the north and east added just 16 new outlets over the last three years. While in the south and west they added 86 in the same time period. Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters. Amit Jatia’s appetite for growth seems ...

Flight of high-paying banking jobs to other European cities will hurt the prospects of Indian real estate developers and desis in the hospitality business in the UK, says Kunal Bose. IMAGE: An official carries a British flag ahead of a news conference by Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, and European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, in Brussels last month.Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters.   When the United Kingdom (UK) ...

Veer Arjun Singh visits the eatery that began as a teenager's humble push cart and only 4 kinds of eggs. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Back in 1989, Rahul Mehra was at a crossroad that would shape the rest of his life. His single mother suffered from a chronic allergy and could not fend for her children anymore. She told her son to choose between three meals a day and education. Mehra, at the age of 16, was an average student with no specific skill set. Yet, he braved to find a ...

'As Rai spoke, in an unbelievably dead pan, almost off-the-cuff tone, about helping plan the murder of two youngsters, drugging them with vodka and whiskey spiked with dava (medicine), smothering one, dragging a body in rigor mortis out of a car, burning a corpse, destroying evidence, and so on, it felt like he was discussing nothing more surprising than the intricacies of the weather.'Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com ...

Many years ago, Freddie Mercury sang: ‘I can’t live with you/ But I can’t live without you/ I can’t let you stay/ Ooh but I can’t live if you go away...’ He was singing a love song, but the words describe, fairly ...