Westlife Development Ltd

Westlife Development Limited (WDL) focuses on establishing and operating McDonald’s restaurants across West and South India, through its wholly owned subsidiary Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt Ltd (HRPL). ^#

Today, It manages 319 McDonalds restaurants and 223 McCafé outlets in West and South India in easily accessible and popular locations like malls, high-streets, shopping complexes and residential areas’ after outlet presence. It employees close to 10,000 employees. ^#

History of Hardcastle Restaurants
Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt Ltd was established as a joint venture with McDonald’s Corporation, USA in 1995. McDonalds Corporation exited the Joint Venture in 2011 after selling its 50% stake to HRPL. It is the now the master franchisee of McDonald’s under an agreement of 2010. The agreement grants HRPL the authority to provide initial capital for the business, with operational and technical business support from McDonald’s Corporation. ^#

Relations with Vendors
Company focuses on improving its supply chain and see it as the most critical aspect of its business. It focuses on maintaining long-term relationships with its Vendors. It also focuses on optimizing its costs against volumes, a win-win situation for both the vendors and the company. ^#

Increase in Restaurant Operating Margins
Focus on effective store-level cost management and moderated cost of store rollout reduced the break-even point and helped the company to increase its Restaurant operating margins by 33% in the last 3 years. ^#