The deliciousness has landed: AirAsia opens restaurant serving inflight meals
Monday, 02 Dec 20192:06 PM MYT
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Air Asia offers a wide variety of dishes in their inflight menu.
KUALA LUMPUR: Foodies now no longer have to wait until they board an AirAsia flight to get a taste of the airline's hot sellers such as Pak Nasser's Nasi Lemak or Uncle Chin's Chicken Rice.
AirAsia's famous inflight meals and other Asean delights are now available at Santan Restaurant and T&CO Cafe - the airline's first fast food joint in the Asean region - at Mid Valley Megamall here.
The restaurant and cafe will open its doors to the public on Tuesday (Dec 3), offering meals from AirAsia's inflight menu brand Santan and T&CO, with its popular rice and noodles meals, priced at only RM12.
Besides Pak Nasser's Nasi Lemak and Uncle Chin's Chicken Rice, Asean inspired dishes such as Cambodia's Pineapple Fish Noodle and Chicken Inasal with Garlic Rice from the Philippines, are also available.
The restaurant and cafe also offers Asean-sourced coffee and tea, snacks and desserts, inspired by local flavours such as the Nasi Lemak Quinoa Wrap and Onde-Onde Cake.
Customers can order ahead online from the comfort of their own homes at santan.com.my or the T&CO mobile app before collecting their orders at the outlet.
Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, who launched the outlet, expressed confidence in AirAsia's latest initiative and praised its adoption of technology to maximise customer satisfaction.
"I was interested in the fact that the restaurant and cafe has leveraged on IT, allowing orders to be made in advance so that customers can spend more time enjoying the food than waiting for it to arrive," he said in his speech on Monday (Dec 2).
Santan Restaurant and T&CO Cafe general manager Catherine Goh said their aim was to have five restaurants by the end of 2020 and 100 franchise-operated restaurants and cafes within the next three to five years with expansions in global markets.
"We have seen a significant appetite for our inflight menu, offerings beyond our flights across the region and this is our answer to that demand.
"We are very proud to extend what started out as an inflight menu into new markets and reiterate our support for local and Asean producers and suppliers, apart from creating new job opportunities with affordable franchising," she said.
AirAsia Group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes said the airline has plans to open its fast-food restaurant in culinary hotspots such as London and New York, besides other Asean countries.
He said a franchise would also be opened in China soon, without elaborating on the exact location or time frame.
“We wanted to be a lifestyle brand and not just an airline brand. We can’t be a lifestyle brand without food.
"Our airline food has been successful and we are the first airline ever to commercialise our food," he said.
He added that there were plans to come up with AirAsia's own food delivery app in keeping up with the times, as well as plans to work with existing companies such as Grab and Foodpanda.
Also present were AirAsia Group executive chairman Datuk Kamarudin Meranun and AirAsia Group president (RedBeat Ventures) Aireen Omar.
To celebrate the opening of the flagship restaurant, Santan is offering customers a limited-time promotion online to enjoy Pak Nasser’s Nasi Lemak with Chicken Rendang for only RM5.
This is exclusively available for online order only at santan.com.my for one order per checkout.
Log-in to your BIG Member to use the promo code: SANTANRM5
Meanwhile, for T&CO, enjoy free coffee with every T&CO mobile app download on Apple Store and Google Play.
This applies to one order per BIG Member ID.
Log-in to your BIG Member to use promo code: TCOFREECOFFEE
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/12/02/the-deliciousness-has-landed-airasia-opens-restaurant-serving-inflight-meals#5i5LlWBKC9xo2zD7.99
Now everyone can eat AirAsia inflight meals at MidValley
NATION
Tuesday, 03 Dec 2019
By FATIMAH ZAINAL
KUALA LUMPUR: Fans of Pak Nasser’s nasi lemak and other popular AirAsia inflight meals can now head over to MidValley Megamall to get their fix at the airline’s first
flagship fast food joint, Santan Restaurant and T&CO Cafe.
Offering meals from AirAsia’s menu brand, Santan and T&CO, the outlet opens its doors to the public today as part of the company’s expansion beyond the airline business.
AirAsia Group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes said the airline has plans to open its fast food restaurant in global culinary hotpots such as London and New York, besides other Asean countries.
“We wanted to be a lifestyle brand, and not just an airline brand. (But) we can’t be a lifestyle brand without food. Our airline food has been successful and we are the first airline ever to commercialise our food,” he said after the launch here yesterday.
A franchise will also be opened in China soon, said Fernandes, without elaborating.
While AirAsia meals are currently not yet available on food delivery apps, plans were underway to make this happen, said Fernandes.
Santan Restaurant and T&CO Cafe general manager Catherine Goh said the aim was to have five Santan-owned restaurants by the end of 2020, and 100 franchisee-operated restaurants and cafes within the next three to five years, with expansions in global markets.
“We have seen a significant appetite for our inflight menu offerings beyond our flights across the region and this is our answer to that demand.
“We are very proud to extend what started out as an inflight menu into new markets and reiterate our support for local and Asean producers and suppliers, apart from creating new job opportunities with affordable franchising,” she said.
Earlier, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, who launched the outlet, expressed confidence in AirAsia’s latest initiative and praised its adoption of technology to maximise customer satisfaction.
“I was interested in the fact that the restaurant and cafe have leveraged upon IT, allowing orders to be made faster and customers spend more time enjoying food than waiting for it to arrive,” he said in his speech.
Besides allowing customers to pre-order online at santan.com.my and the T&CO mobile app before collecting their orders at the outlet, the restaurant and cafe also features a smart menu based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
This allows Santan Restaurant and T&CO Cafe to have the ability to recommend dishes based on time, past ordering patterns, as well as demographics.
Also present were AirAsia group executive chairman Datuk Kamarudin Meranun and AirAsia Group president (RedBeat Ventures) Aireen Omar.
To celebrate the opening of the flagship restaurant, Santan is offering customers a limited-time promotion online to enjoy Pak Nasser’s nasi lemak with chicken rendang for only RM5.
More details are available at santan.com.my.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/12/03/now-everyone-can-eat-airasia-inflight-meals-at-midvalley#q3Q1j2DckHTQQYtM.99
