Goenka plans Rs. 70-crore Au Bon Pain expansion.

US` Au Bon Pain cafe chain, run by the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group in India, is aiming to expand over the next year in Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata. The chain plans to add 40-42 stores across the three cities to its current count of 29 in Bangalore, said Sanjiv Goenka, group chairman.

Goenka opened the chain's biggest outlet so far in Park Street, considered the city's food street. The 140-seater store across 4,000 sq. ft. is housed where the group's music retailing brand Music World's largest store used to run earlier (all stores under the brand were closed earlier this year because of falling margins). This is the chain's second store in the city after the one opened in Quest, the group's new mall.

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