Pick up your pizza and burger from the railway station soon

Indian Railways are fast tracking food for its passengers and, in its latest innovation, it is trying to tie up with big names to make available burgers and pizzas at railway stations - thereby, the passenger can buy it and board he train. As per indications,train passengers will soon be able to order burgers and pizzas of their choice on the Indian Railways website and have them delivered right to their coaches. And, for last-minute purchases, vendor boys will be waiting on platforms with ready-to-serve burgers, pizzas and Indian thalis.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 28 June 2016.

The names doing the rounds are leading quick service restaurants (QSR) like Domino's Pizza, Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pizza Hut. They are expected to venture into new territory by opening up stores at railway stations to tap train passengers in the country. The potential is huge because the Indian Railways operates about 12,000 trains carrying 23 million passengers every day.
Such burger and pizza outlets are set to come up in food courts planned at stations such as Howrah, Mumbai, Madurai, Agra, Pune and Visakhapatnam. Railway passengers on an average spend around Rs 100-125 on a meal. It is less when compared to airports but, the volume of business in railways is many times more than airports.


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