'Halal' Swiss restaurant here

'Halal' Swiss restaurant here

JAKARTA (JP): A new franchise restaurant combining Swiss
ambience and guaranteed halal (passed Moslem rules) food opened
Saturday in the business and diplomatic district of Kuningan in
South Jakarta.

On the ground floor of the Graha Surya Internusa building on
Jl. HR Rasuna Said Kav. X-0, the Movenpick Marche restaurant
offers a wide selection of fresh Indonesian, Asian and European
dishes in a setting designed like a Swiss market place.

"Diners can see the dishes as they are prepared before them
and are invited to wander from one market stall to another to see
the selected products and choose whatever appeals to them," said
Movenpick Marche's managing director for the Asia-Pacific region,
Bruno Schoepfer, at the opening.

With a total investment of US$2.8 million funded by its local
franchise partner, PT Wahana Sempurna, the restaurant is the
first Movenpick Marche outlet in Indonesia.

Marche's director of international franchise, Christian
Nothhaft, guaranteed that all the food was halal, fresh and of
high quality.

Established in 1948, Movenpick Enterprises is a group of
international firms, dealing with food outlets, hotels and
consumer goods.

The first Movenpick Marche restaurant was in Stuttgart,
Germany, in 1983. It has grown into a chain of 60 restaurants in
13 countries, such as Austria, Britain, Italy, Canada, Israel,
Korea and Hong Kong. (bsr)