American pizza chain Papa John’s will have a mix of small and large-format pizza stores, as it maps out a fresh journey in India eight years after exiting the market, Tapan Vaidya, Group CEO at master franchisee PJP Investments Group said in an exclusive conversation with FE.

The UAE-based PJP Investments Group along with investment firm Pulsar Capital are joint master franchisees of Papa John’s in India. The partners will set up a total of 650 restaurants in India in a decade, which will be company-owned and operated, as they seek to tap the eating out boom in India. Vaidya declined to specify investment numbers, saying Papa John’s new innings is almost two years in the making where the franchisee partners have carefully thought-through their strategy, opting to take one city at a time,

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