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The said network will be the largest in the country.

The growth is said to be driven by online sales of the said pizza brand.

More locations in China and Saudi Arabia are also in the pipeline.

They also expressed plans to launch 5,000 more sites internationally for the said concept.

They will also be revealing their new designs of coffee cups and mugs as well as three Christmas coffee blend flavours.

The results are driven by their digital and delivery platforms.

This is the Malaysia-based noodle chain’s first restaurant outside Asia.

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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.

The chicken chain looks to focus on their digital performance marketing. KFC India has appointed the digital performance agency iProspect to handle the chicken chain’s SEO, paid media and digital mandate. As reported by AdAge India, KFC commented that the partnership will create positive results for the brand. iProspect is one of the agencies under The Dentsu Aegis Network, a multinational media and digital marketing communications company based in London.

The campaign includes giving farmers irrigation and processing facilities. Starbucks has announced that their Starbucks China Farmer Support Centre (FSC) plans to train 50,000 farmers and give education and health support to 6,000 children by 2023. The first phase of the campaign includes a pilot program with the charitable organisation China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), where the coffee chain will provide farmers customized agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, soil improvements and access to irrigation and processing facilities. The said partnership with CFPA will also give 400 elementary school students 400 hours of supplemental education each which includes enrichment activities that improves the students’ mental and emotional development. “Starbucks has helped establish Yunnan as one of the most important coffee producing regions globally by improving market access for farmers and bringing the best of China’s arabica coffee to the world,” Belinda Wong, CEO of Starbucks China, said. “I am thrilled to partner CFPA as their unparalleled expertise and capabilities make them the ideal partner to kick-off our commitment to address pressing needs faced by China’s coffee farmers even more effectively. This is only the beginning of our ambition to scale our efforts, one village at a time, to build thriving coffee farming communities for generations to come.”

This is the second time Tse will collaborate with the fast food chain. McDonald’s will be partnering with the celebrity chef Nicholas Tse in creating a new range of hamburgers and desserts. According to a report by Hype, he also collaborated with the fast food giant last year in China and released a new burger that is named after him. The offering consists of Sichuan spicy sauce, Vietnamese chili paste and 2 squid ink burger buns. He also made another version of the McFlurry that contains his own brand of cookies.  

The delivery programme also includes full coverage of Beijing and Shanghai. Starbucks will be launching their delivery services in 11 cities in China through the online food delivery platform Ele.me, a subsidiary of Alibaba. The move is part of their plan to enable delivery services for 2,000 Starbucks stores across 30 cities, as a result of the coffee giant’s partnership with the e-commerce company. Meanwhile, Starbucks Korea has announced that they will be launching 300 more cashless stores. The move is driven by the positive results of their existing 103 cashless stores. They also reported that their cash settlement ratio have decreased from 3.4% to 0.2% in the past three months.