13/01/2022
Introducing Malaysian Appetites To Western Cuisine
Ramly burgers are one of my favourite go-to’s for supper whenever I’m craving something greasy and hot. Their burgers are known to be an all-time Malaysian favourite and their patties have been relished by many generations. It’s hard to imagine Malaysia without Ramly today, but back then, even the government couldn’t predict how far this business could go.
Ramly bin Mokni, the Ramly Group's founder and managing director, has come a long way from his humble beginnings. Ramly was born in Tanjung Piandang, Perak was the 8th child of 16 siblings. He grew up in Sekinchan and then moved to KL in search of a better employment. In 1978, Ramly and his wife, Shala Siah binti Abdul Manap, started this this business from their house.
He began to get this idea came when he was working in a supermarket where a customer was wondering if one of the burger patties sold was made by a bumiputera. The demand of food made by bumiputera was very low back in the days and there was also a dispute around knowing if burger meats were halal or haram.
Thus, Ramly took it as an opportunity to start a business to create halal burger meat at the time with his wife. So, he applied for a loan of RM7,000 from Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) but unfortunately was rejected. He suspected that this happened as the Malays were not interested in burgers yet. Because of that, he decided to start his business with just a capital of RM2,000 and produced 200 burger patties a day.
With less funds, he created these patties manually, using his hands and knives at home. His patties weren’t received too well in the beginning; Malaysians then apparently just weren’t into burgers. However, Ramly wasn’t discouraged. He later opened his own burger stall near Chow Kit and started selling cooked and uncooked patties. He also tweaked the flavour of his patties to the liking of the local palate.
The demand for their patties then grew and they started producing 3,000 meats per day, 15x more of what they originally produced a day.
Ramly had set up a company 2 years after he started making patties in his home.
In 1984, he managed to open a factory in Bandar Tun Razak that was about 100,000 sqft.In 5 years’ time, Ramly found that he reached the maximum production capacity of that factory, but the demand was still growing. He knew he needed to match those demands, so they expanded to a bigger factory in Batu Caves that was about 3 acres.
With that bigger factory, they went from producing 100,000 patties a day to 1 million patties a day.
The Ramly Group would also invest around RM500 million to increase production capacity, with the goal of producing 6 million burger patties each day. This is 6 times what they produce on a daily basis, and 60 times what they produced when they initially started, which was 100,000 burger patties each day.The Ramly Group will also invest more than RM500 million to expand their production capacity as they aim to produce 6 million burger patties a day. This is 6x more than what they’re currently producing a day, and 60x more than when they first started, which was 100,000 burger patties a day.
Ramly is an iconic and accessible Malaysian food whose popularity would most likely not die down anytime soon, not even with competition from gourmet burger stalls. With the delicious taste of Ramly burgers as well as their interesting backstory that is truly inspiring, we chose Ramly as our main patty for our burger product here in Batburger!
Burgers sold per day are very limited so contact us now for order or questions!
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