Salient points
- Gopizza plans to invest an additional RS 25 cror to increase the count of its shops from 65 to 100 by the end of this calendar year, with the launch of its Korean restaurant of Road Food Gochujang in Bengaluru.
- The company aims to create integrated spaces for its three brands – Gopizza, Dalkomi and Gochujang – allow customers to enjoy a complete Korean food experience while targeting 100 stores in India within the tax year 2026.
- Gopizza recorded a growth of the same 15 % shop and aims to increase its EBITDA profitability from 10 % to 20 percent within the second quarter of the tax year 2026 by expanding its brands of brands.
The global brand with Gopizza headquarters, which has so far invested RS 100 crores in the business of India, plans to invest further RS 25 crores to take the total count of the shops from 65 to 100 by the end of this CY, Jaewon Lim, founder and CEO of Global Gopizza, told Etretrail.
He launched his latest feat, Gochujang, a Korean street food restaurant in Bengaluru. With this opening, Gopizza added a third brand to his umbrella, together with Dalkomi – a K -Dessert coffee and Gopizza.
The company aims to open 100 stores of all three brands together by the end of this civil year. Both brands – Dalkomes with 2 stores and Gochujang with an outlet – pilot first in India before becoming global.
“India is a key market in our global growth strategy. We are actively looking for a master of Franchising Maestro and we aim to launch 100 stores on Gopizza, Gochujang and Dalkomi from Fy 2026. Our goal is to create integrated spaces in which customers can enjoy all three brands under the same roof, offering a complete Corean food experience with Corena operational efficiency,” said.“Now that we have successfully built a business business model and when we manage 100 stores in India, we will be able to launch franchising options to master franchising,” he added.
The brand, which is present in 3 cities: Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, plans to expand its presence in Delhi NCR, Punge and Ahmedabad from this end CY. He was planning to touch 100 CY 24 stores, but he couldn’t.
“We firmly believe that we will be able to achieve our goals to open 100 stores from Cy End, since we now have three different brands that open in different places,” he said.”We were finding difficult to achieve our previously set goals as it was difficult to find the right points for our pizza brand, but now with two other brands, we aim to achieve our goals. Secondly, the global economy had a recession in Q3 and Q4 everywhere but in India. So, we were a little attentive to what we were launching in each country”, added further.
The brand’s stores, which extend between 50 square feet to 2,000 square feet, find a weak point at 500 square feet.
Mapping of the global presence
The brand, which is present in 8 countries – Korea, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and the United States – plans to enter more 2-3 by the end of this CY. Globally, he manages 1,400 stores.
“Going forward, we plan to give the brand’s main franchise in other countries, such as Malaysia, and will soon open in Mongolia,” he said.
So far, the Korean and Indian markets have become profitable for the company.
“We bet a lot on profitability while we immerse ourselves in depth in various countries. We consider India as the largest growth engine for the company,” he said.
“To become profitable in Korea, we expanded our portfolio in space B2B to become a pizza solutions company. It really took off and has contributed heavily to our background line, while in India growth is directly proportional to the number of shops we open,” he explained.
At present, 75 % of the brand’s revenues come from catering and the remaining 25 % are contributed by delivery.
Touch growth
Currently, the same growth as the brand’s shop is 15 % and the profitability of the ABITDA at 10 %.
“By adding new brands to our wallet, we plan to bring our EBITDA profitability to 20 % in Q2 CY 26 since more brands under the same roof will help us maintain the same opex and the highest line higher,” he explained.
The brand, which plans to double its revenue numbers from RS 50 Last Cy Crore to RS 100 Crore this end CY, provides that India contributes to 30-40 percent of its total revenues from this cy end.