Kerala has always been a food-loving country with each region having its special traditional cuisine, Mallus have never been very big on eating out. But all that is changing now. The restaurant industry in Kerala has been growing at a rapid pace over the last decade.

There were more than 20 lakh hotel and restaurant establishments in India in 2002. The food service or restaurant industry was worth a whopping Rs. 43,000 crores in 2010 and growing at a healthy rate of 15-20 percent annually.

In Kerala, new restaurants are opening every day. Each restaurant has its specialties. Each restaurant focuses on different items. Some restaurants only focus on Arabic but some of them focus on Chinese. With the increase in technology, new online cake shops in Kerala are starting. Even in the small towns, the restaurant industry is booming, so today there are so many new restaurants in Pathanamthitta Kerala.

If there was one year that changed the restaurant landscape of Kerala. It was 1996 when the American fast-food chain McDonald's entered the country. With its colorful mascot, cheap burgers, and consistent looking and tasting French fries, Mcdonald's soon had the middle-class Indian eating out of its hand. Until then, the fast-moving foods in India were mostly restricted to Udupi style dosa-idli-Wada fare or local chains like Delhi-based Nirula’s serving fast foods such as pizzas and burgers. But Mcdonald's changed all that and set the stage for the entry of many other fast-food chains like  Pizza Hut, and KFC, etc