Wednesday, September 26, 2012

RFC to begin mobile restaurant service in December

Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsbusiness.php?id=697492

Published: September 26, 2012

BUMIPUTERA-OWNED Radix Fried Chicken (RFC) will start a mobile restaurant service in December with the purchasse of a RM400,000 truck.

Chairman Datuk Ahmad Shafee Sabaruddin said the service will for a start target the Klang Valley, especially convocations at tertiary institutions, before expanding to Peninsular Malaysia's northern and east coast regions.

"We are implementing strategies to serve our customers more directly besides through our 10 existing restaurants," he told the media here today after the launch of two new products - Ayam Goreng Hot Dujaj and Mee Bandung.

RFC, formerly a subsidiary of HPA Industries Sdn Bhd (HPA), was acquired on Aug 1 by Bumiputera firm Darul Rahmat Sdn Bhd, which had owned three of RFC's 10 restaurants.

A new RM1.2 million RFC restaurant is set to open in Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur at the end of October, Ahmad Shafiee said, addding the company is confident of having 50 restaurants nationwide by 2017.

The new spicy fried chicken dish features Bhut Jolokia or 'ghost chili', said to be the world's most pungent chili, which is grown in India's northeast region and Bangladesh.

Ahmad Shafee said besides Mee Bandung, popular in Johor, RFC will also introduce a new dish every three months. -Bernama

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