The American chain Sbarro sets up in Argentina and will open 35 stores in 4 years – Telam

The first store will open on August 25 in the city of Buenos Aires.

The leaders of the American pizza chain Sbarro announced their landing in Argentina on Friday with the opening of 35 stores until 2025, with an estimated investment of 15 million pesos for each point of sale, during a meeting with the Minister of Productive Development, Matas Kulfas.

This was communicated by the managers led by Sbarro Argentina director Rafael Pereyra, who presented the investment plan to achieve the landing of the American pizza chain.

The expansion plan envisages the opening of 35 branches until 2025, with the model of franchises of different formats, and the opening of the first store scheduled for August 25, will be on Corrientes Avenue in the city of Buenos Aires, for which the company hired 45 people.

By 2021, they plan to open another store, to which they will add five more next year and eight more branches in 2023., while in 2024 they plan to open 10 stores and, in 2025, 10 more, in order to reach a total of 35 branches, with an estimated investment of 15 million pesos for each.

“The arrival in the country of one of the most emblematic international chains is a reflection of the confidence of foreign companies to generate work and settle in the country”“

Matas Kulfas

“Gastronomy is one of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic. We are fully aware of the situation and the difficulties that the gastronomic sector is going through, which is gradually recovering, ”underlined Kulfas at the end of the meeting, stressing the support of the State to the sector with financial instruments, loans and grants.

Kulfas: “The gastronomic sector is slowly getting back on its feet”.

In this context, the Minister declared that “today is added this great news of the arrival in the country of one of the most emblematic international pizza chains like Sbarro, which is a reflection of the confidence of foreign companies to produce, generate work and set up in the country ”.

“It has been 14 years since a North American channel set up shop in Argentina. It is the first company to come back, and from the hand of an Argentinian company, which is why it is really such an important symbol. We operated that brand in the United States, in the city of Houston, and we brought it here, ”said Pereira.

“It has been 14 years since a North American chain established itself in Argentina. It is the first company to come back, and from the hand of an Argentinian company“

Rafael Pereyra

The Sbarro franchise is owned by Desarrolladora Gastronmica, which also owns the Kentucky and Dandy chains., among others, and the company is present in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

Today, it operates in 26 countries. It has more than 1,000 franchises and plans to grow at the rate of 70 openings per year worldwide.

In addition to pizzas and XXL portions, it offers strombolis, drinks, desserts and other products, in a format close to fast food, without table service.