Devyani International 

Devyani International Limited, established in 1991 and listed as an RJ Corp growth engine, is one of India’s largest chain quick-service restaurant operators. The company flies the Yum! and Costa flags in several countries at once: India, Thailand, Nepal, and Nigeria. On dil-rjcorp.com it calls itself India’s largest franchisee for Yum! Brands on KFC and Pizza Hut, the exclusive Costa Coffee franchisee in India, and the owner of Vaango, a South Indian vegetarian format, plus The Food Street food-court concept and a meaningful airport F&B book. The first Pizza Hut it cites is Jaipur in 1997—a franchise origin story rather than a startup kitchen myth. As of 31 December 2024 the company publishes more than two thousand thirty stores across brands in more than two hundred eighty cities, including more than nine hundred KFC restaurants, more than five hundred eighty Pizza Hut restaurants in India, Nepal, and Nigeria, more than one hundred ninety Costa Coffee cafés, and more than seventy Vaango outlets. Those counts belong on the corporate site and in exchange filings; they are cited here only as Devyani’s own scale markers. RJ Corp’s wider beverages, dairy, retail, healthcare, and education book sits around DIL, but the restaurant company still has to run kitchens, crews, and airport concessions as a process business. The mission language is people-centric, customer-focused, and process-driven. Respect, Integrity, and Trust are the values attached to ESG and community pages. That is franchise mathematics: a store that cannot hold a crew or a recipe will not stay a growth engine for long. Customers are travellers, students, and families who want KFC, Pizza Hut, Costa, or Vaango in a city or an airport, not a holding-company diagram. Official LinkedIn is the corporate channel for store-count news, brand films, and careers colour. It is not a booking desk, a food-safety complaint form, or a place to share payment data. Menu, store, and franchise facts belong on dil-rjcorp.com and on the brand sites DIL links. Follow the page for one of India’s largest QSR operators, then verify every store number and country list at the source.