Barista in advanced talks with food delivery platforms for food delivery
Barista in advanced talks with food delivery platforms for food delivery

Coffee chain Barista is in advanced talks with Swiggy and another food delivery platform for serving the online food market. Through the food delivery platforms, Barista will sell its food items, which will be cooked at its facility and distributed by the online aggregators.

Puneet Gulati, Chief Executive Officer, Barista, said, "We are in advanced stage of talks with Swiggy and one more player for dark kitchens and hopefully, we would have announcements soon."

In October last year, Cafe Coffee Day made an announcement to collaborate with Uber Eats for launching a virtual restaurant network.

Barista is also planning to add around 40 more stores in the next three months. This launch will take its count to 250 by the end of this financial year. The coffee chain will expand in tier-II and III cities.

"Currently, we are having around 210 stores and by the end of March, we are hoping to have around 250 stores. These would be a mix of company-owned stores and franchise stores," Gulati further stated.

He added, "Currently, we have operations in 47 towns in India. It was just 35 towns one-and-a-half-year back."

 
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