The first European restaurant chain in the Quick Service Restaurants sector to arrive to Iran.

They plan to open 200 stores over 10 years.

Telepizza is the biggest company for home delivery pizzas out of the USA.

Telepizza operates on four continents with 1,342 stores serving more than 60 million customers and with total sales of €506 million

Telepizza, the biggest non-US pizza delivery company by number of stores, has announced that will open his first restauran in Iran in March 2017. They will operate via a strategic master franchise alliance with its partner Momenin Investment Group and they are planning to open 200 stores in 10 years. MIG could invest around 100 million euros over the period.

The first store will be opened in the capital, Tehran, after which they plan to open other 19 before the end of the year. “We are very satisfied to have found a travel companion like Momenin Investment Group to our venture in Iran . We will be the first European chain in the QSR segment to set up in this country” states the italian Giorgio Minardi , International Chairman of Telepizza.

According to the data they have, the spending in restaurants in Iran from 2005 to 2012 has grown 120 % and one third of it is in Fast Food restaurants.

“Local competency does not offer good quality”, noted one of the partners of the iranian group that will manage the master franchise, Hadi Momenin, who underlined that Iran has many similarities to Spain at the time of consuming and food and that it is a great time for foreign inverstors, specially for Europeans.

“Telepizza is a global brand that we are proud to be able to introduce in Iran . A distinguished brand concept with high degree of product innovation, excellence in delivery and consumer technology, that will allow us to bring to Iranian people which was missing today in the market: freshly quality handmade pizzas, friendly and innovative delivered at a great value to be enjoyed anywhere”, explains Hadi Momenin, representative of Momenin Investment Group.

Telepizza is a Spanish company with a successful international expansion since its arrival in Chile in 1992. Nowadays 1,342 shops (456 company-owned and 886 franchisees and master franchises) are operating in 15 countries in Europe , Asia , Africa and Latin America , offering its products to more than 60 million customers with total sales of €506 million.