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The company plans to stay ahead of the competition by focusing on customer experience. The Loco Group, a Mexican restaurant and bar group in Singapore, has confirmed their plans to launch a fast casual concept that aims to be different from “the usual” Mexican restaurants in the island-nation. Dubbed as Chico Loco, co-founder and director Ajay Parag says that they see an “immense opportunity” as Singaporeans are beginning to look for a high-quality dining experience that also offers low prices. He also mentioned that as most Mexican concepts serve tacos, burritos and nachos, Chico Loco’s signature offering will be a hormone-free Mexican spit-roast chicken. “It will have the same great quality and attention to detail as our restaurants – that will always remain as our core element – but it’s a concept that can be scaled with a lot more ease compared to a full-service restaurant,” Parag exclusively told QSR Media. The Loco Group currently operates Lucha Loco and Super Loco, having a total of three outlets in Singapore with an upcoming fourth site in the island-nation. They also made their way in Indonesia through another Super Loco branch.

The brand will continue to expand in the country for the next five years.

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Expenses from their first Din Tai Fung outlet in London dragged it down.

The company who owns the Bella Italia and Las Iguanas brands is also looking to expand in more markets in Asia, Europe and North Africa.

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They will be part of the event’s panel on franchising.

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Three industry leaders will sit on the annual Leaders' Panel to discuss the industry's hottest topics.

The new programme seeks to help restaurants improve their delivery services. Deliveroo has announced that they launched Restaurant Home, an online portal which provides data and insights on how the delivery services of restaurants perform. They also revealed the key part of the new feature which is Marketer, allowing restaurants to make their own marketing offers to consumers on the app. Restaurant Home shows date such as the total number of delivered orders, average time between order acceptance and rider pickup and a line graph of the average customer order rating per day. “Deliveroo’s goal is to provide the best food delivery experience possible to customers, restaurants and riders. We are always looking for ways to help restaurant partners improve their offerings, drive efficiencies and profitability and this portal enables them do so, in turn benefiting riders and customers,” Deliveroo Singapore’s general manager Siddharth Shanker said.

Another store is set to open in the country by 2019.

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