AmRest plans to broaden its menu card and enter Ukraine

"We would like to run 3-5 new outlets already next year," said Henry McGovern, president of AmRest. The company representatives claim that total investments in setting up new chains are difficult to estimate, but at the same time one outlet would cost zł.5-6 million. Wojciech Mroczyński, managing director of AmRest, said that the company will continue to develop existing chains. "We believe that the Polish market is not yet saturated," explained Mroczyński. Łukasz Wahełko, analyst with CA IB, said that the ideas of AmRest are good, but new investments are not likely to be visible in its 2006 results while they should positively affect the firm in the long term. In particular he praised plans to invest in Ukraine. (Parkiet, p. 3) M.M.