DPC Dash Ltd (www.dpcdash.com), the exclusive master franchisee operating Domino's Pizza across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, brought its fourth Supply Chain Centre (SCC) online in Wuhan on August 21, 2026 — a purpose-built dough production and cold-chain logistics hub with annual capacity to support more than 200 stores. The facility relieves pressure on the company's existing Shanghai, Beijing, and Dongguan SCCs, which had collectively been covering Wuhan-area stores, optimizing refrigerated dough delivery logistics across central China. Two additional SCCs in Chengdu and Nanjing have been site-secured, with commissioning targeted for the second half of 2027.
Network & Kitchen Buildout
The supply chain investment runs parallel to an aggressive store construction program. DPC Dash added 235 net new stores in the first half of 2026, entering 15 new cities and bringing its total footprint to 1,550 locations in 75 cities. The company's full-year target stands at approximately 350 net new stores, with 27 additional units opened between July 1 and August 14, 2026, 38 under construction, and 36 signed or approved. Each new store represents a complete commercial kitchen build-out — cooking equipment, refrigeration, ventilation, and delivery infrastructure — making the pipeline a substantial capital goods opportunity for equipment suppliers and dealers active in the China market. New stores opened in markets entered during 2026 generated average daily sales of RMB 28,230, with a weighted average payback period of approximately 14.8 months, underlining the economic case for continued facility investment.
Financial Performance
For the six months ended June 30, 2026, DPC Dash reported revenue of RMB 3.13 billion, up 20.8% year-over-year, driven in large part by a 33.7% surge in transaction volume. Delivery sales — which depend directly on insulated packaging, cold-chain integrity, and kitchen throughput capacity — grew 44.7% to RMB 1.62 billion. Store-level EBITDA reached RMB 544.5 million (margin: 17.4%), while net profit attributable to owners climbed 22.9% to RMB 81.0 million. The group held RMB 934.7 million in cash and bank balances at period end, with a gearing ratio of 7.9%, preserving capacity to fund ongoing store network expansion, supply chain infrastructure, and digital systems.
For foodservice equipment dealers and consultants specifying commercial kitchens in Asia-Pacific growth markets, DPC Dash's pipeline illustrates how large-scale QSR expansion continues to generate consistent demand for standardized back-of-house packages — cooking suites, refrigeration, ventilation, and ware-handling — across a replicable store format. Operators expanding into second- and third-tier cities face the same cold-chain and commissary logistics challenges that the Wuhan SCC is designed to solve, a model increasingly relevant to commissary and ghost kitchen infrastructure projects across the region. The scale of the delivery operation — with loyalty program membership reaching 41.9 million — also puts sustained pressure on kitchen throughput and cold-chain storage and distribution capacity at the unit level.
Written by Michael Politz, Author of Guide to Restaurant Success: The Proven Process for Starting Any Restaurant Business From Scratch to Success (ISBN: 978-1-119-66896-1), Founder of Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading online magazine and resource in the industry. Designer of the Bluetooth logo and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40" for founding American Wholesale Floral, Politz is also the Co-founder of the Proof Awards and the CPG Awards and a partner in numerous consumer brands across the food and beverage sector.
