In Costa Rica, the Pizza Hut chain expects to invest about $1.6 million in the next few months in the opening of six new sales points outside the Greater Metropolitan Area.
Representatives of the company informed that the new premises will be located in Nicoya, Orotina, Quepos, San Rafael de Alajuela, Turrialba and San Ramón. In the case of the sales point in Nicoya, it was inaugurated last September 17.
During the rest of the year, the Papa John's pizza restaurant chain plans to open seven new points in the Greater Metropolitan Area.
The company said in a statement that the first of the seven locations that are planned to open, is located in Barva de Heredia and began operating last August 24.
The American franchise Little Ceasar's has started operating two fast food restaurants in Managua, and plans to open five more next year.
The chain of pizzerias is arriving in Nicaragua through the company Alimentos Corporativos Coralsa, which already represents the franchise in Guatemala and El Salvador.
Pizza Hut, Pan e Vino, Papa John's and La Fabbrica opened eleven new restaurants this year.
With a $ 2.4 million investment, Pizza Hut will open six new stores and remodel another three. It also plans to open three coffee shops in their restaurants.
La Fabbrica will open its sixth outlet, located in Sabana Oeste during April. General manager, Alvaro Sauma, explained that the company will invest $ 250.000 on this new opening.
The Guatemalan Italian food chain announced expansion plans for the second half of 2011 in Honduras and El Salvador.
Francisco Fajardo, manager of the franchise said that they are in the process of analyzing the logistics of supplying ingredients either by creating a distribution center in each country or by sending them from Guatemala.
"In some restaurants we will have a joint venture and in other we will work thorough a franchise program," Waleska Zimeri, marketing manager at Al Macarone, told Prensalibre.com.