Premier Restaurants defends Applebee’s, IHOP pricing

Pre­mier Restau­rants CEO Vish­nu Ma­haraj has de­fend­ed the pric­ing at the new­ly opened Ap­ple­bee’s and IHOP restau­rants at Grand Bazaar, say­ing the prices are af­ford­able de­spite so­cial me­dia posts sug­gest­ing oth­er­wise.

Ma­haraj said some menu prices match or are low­er than those in the Unit­ed States de­spite im­por­ta­tion du­ties and ad­di­tion­al land­ed costs.

“Some of our food prices are ac­tu­al­ly match­ing the US prices. De­spite the fact we have im­por­ta­tion and du­ties and ex­tra ad­di­tion­al land­ed costs.”