Now, a live kitchen at Spencer's Retail with freshly cooked cuisines

RP Sanjiv Goenka’s retail chain Spencer’s Retail is planning a huge makeover. As part of this, it will set up food hubs including a live kitchen where customers can order about 2,500 dishes from nine cuisines ranging across Mughlai, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Continental, Italian, Mexican, Spanish and Lebanise, the Economic Times reported today.

The fine food hub is being called ‘Epicusine’ and will be headed by chairman Sanjiv Goenka’s 23-year-old son Shashwat Genka.

The dishes will be a variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food items from all over the world, and will also feature ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat foods and pre-cooked foods, along with cheese and dairy products of nine countries, meat varieties of six countries, and a live bread bakery, the report added.

The move is in line with the company’s objective of driving profitability and breaking even by the third quarter of the current fiscal as Spencer’s plans to keep the pricing affordable.

Spencer’s currently has 29 hyper and 14 super stores along with 80 small format outlets.

It was forced to shut over 64 small-format stores in the last three years, and has indicated that it plans to remodel its existing 105 stores and future ones on the lines of the kiranas and global convenience stores like 7-Eleven.

Earlier this month, evenTatas Trent launched a corner convenience store format modeled on Tesco Express in Pune. The first Star Daily outlet stocks mainly fresh foods, groceries and essential items.