McDonald’s rolls out the first MFY restaurant in Kolkatta

Continuing with its expansion plans despite ongoing difficult economic conditions, McDonald’s has opened its brand new restaurant at City Centre Mall, Kolkata’s first integrated multi–utility and retail facility located at Rajarhat in Salt Lake. The newly-opened outlet is McDonald’s Third restaurant in Kolkata and in Eastern India. With the opening of this restaurant, the total numbers of McDonald’s restaurants in North and East India go up to 91.

Spread across 3,700 square feet, it is a flagship McDonald’s restaurant with a seating capacity for 180 people. It is built on the new state-of-the-art technology driven MFY (Made for You) food preparation platform. MFY is a unique concept where the food is prepared as the customer places its order. This cooking method has helped McDonald’s further strengthen its food safety, hygiene and quality standards. This is the 10th MFY McDonald’s restaurant in its portfolio. All the new upcoming McDonald’s restaurants in the country would be based on MFY.

On the occasion, Rudra Kishore Sen - Head of Operations, McDonald’s India (North and East) said, "Establishing a strategic presence at popular hotspots is crucial to our expansion plans in Kolkata, and we are on a lookout for quality retail real estate in the city to increase our accessibility to the customers. We are committed to expand our presence here and to bring to our consumers an exciting McDonald’s experience.” 

Diners at the new restaurant can enjoy McDonald’s world-famous range of burgers, Mac fries and wraps. The restaurant also holds a separate dessert kiosk which offers limited menu of unique range of desserts that are not usually available in a McDonald’s restaurant. The kiosk has a range of desserts such as McSwirl butterscotch, waffle cone with chocolate and strawberry toppings, flavour twist green apple and soft serve cones.