Flight caterers eye retail business

New Delhi: With airlines increasingly paring what once used to be lavish spreads to either a modest hot meal in full service flights or selling cold snacks in budget ones, flight catering biggies are now struggling to survive. Most of the big caterers are now left with excess kitchen capacity and looking for new revenue streams to survive. India's biggest flight caterer, Tata Group company Tajsats, has started opening retail outlets under the same name where people on ground can buy what once used to be served free 35,000 feet above sea level.
Tajsats, a JV of Taj hotels and Singapore Airport Terminal Services, has started its retail chain with an outlet in Delhi's Defence Colony, which is likely to be followed by another one in Khan Market. The company is planning to open many more outlets across the country in coming months. Interestingly, Taj Hotels years back used to have pastry shops in cities that then got confined to within the properties.
03/09/10 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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