56 January 2016 - Business View Caribbean
Royal Castle Ltd.
Our culture, our taste
Royal Castle was incorporated in 1968, as the first
hundred-percent, family-owned and locally operated,
quick service restaurant in Trinidad and Tobago. Its
first outlet on Frederick St., Port of Spain, had only 12
employees. Today, the company, which is still privately
owned, has evolved into one of the most successful
restaurant chains in the region with 350 employees
at 29 corporate-owned locations and ten franchises –
four in Trinidad and Tobago, and six in Guyana.
The company’s spread across Trinidad & Tobago in-
cludes locations as far south as Point Fortin and Rio
Claro, as far east as Valencia and Sangre Grande, and
throughout the north, central and east/west corridor.
Its main operation for production and warehousing, as
well as its administrative functions, are in the indus-
trial estate in Arima. Its newest corporate restaurant
opened in Debe, Trinidad, in August 2015.
Sandy Roopchand, the company’s managing director,
believes that Royal Castle can compete with the big
international chains, such as McDonalds and KFC,
