Kylu Group, the McDonald’s franchise business Reema Mavani founded in 2017, has taken over the Paddington and Kilburn restaurants in London. The two additions take it to 15 McDonald’s restaurants across six London boroughs, with more than 1,200 staff, while its latest accounts show profit sharply lower on broadly flat turnover.
Reema Mavani left a career in IT in 2017 to become a McDonald’s franchisee, the sort of career change being the right candidate to open a franchise is written for. Her company, Kylu Limited, was incorporated on 8 August 2017 and gives as its registered office the McDonald’s restaurant on Shaftesbury Circus in South Harrow.
Mavani has also been a director of the Harrow Town Centre business improvement district company since May 2023. The Paddington and Kilburn takeovers were reported on 24 September 2026.
Growth by taking over existing restaurants
The two new restaurants follow the usual route for a McDonald’s franchisee in the UK. The brand’s franchising site states that “most applicants begin by taking over an established restaurant”, and that franchisees then earn the right to run more sites on the basis of their performance.
Paddington and Kilburn are both existing, trading restaurants, taken over rather than built from new, a resale route with a different cost base from a new build, as what it costs to open a franchise in the UK sets out, and bring Kylu to 15 restaurants nine years after it started. Kylu’s estate now spans six boroughs, from its base in Harrow to Paddington and Kilburn in north-west and west London.
Turnover of £26.9 million, profit down by three quarters
Kylu’s accounts for the year to 31 December 2024, filed at Companies House on 30 September 2025, show turnover of £26.9 million, down from £27.6 million in 2023. Pre-tax profit fell to £209,531 from £893,491, a drop of around 77%.
On those figures, the business kept less than 1p of pre-tax profit from each pound of sales in 2024, against the ongoing fees and marketing levies a network charges on turnover rather than on profit, set out in the franchise contract: key clauses every franchisee must know.The accounts do not cover the Paddington and Kilburn restaurants, which were added after that year.
Good to know
McDonald’s UK does not publish franchisee financials on its franchising homepage. The figures for any single franchise business come from that company’s own accounts at Companies House, which record turnover and profit but not how many restaurants the franchisee runs.
Reading those filings is one of the checks how to choose your franchisor recommends, and it works in both directions.
A large employer of young staff
With more than 1,200 people on its payroll, Kylu is one of the larger employers among London quick service franchisees, a segment that relies heavily on young staff. A Tony Blair Institute analysis reported the same day found that hiring an 18-year-old costs around 40% more than a decade ago, with the minimum hourly rate for that age group rising from £5.13 in 2015 to £10.00 in 2025. The accounts themselves do not attribute the fall in profit to any single cost line.
The 2025 accounts are due this month
Kylu’s accounts for the year to 31 December 2025 are due at Companies House by 30 September 2026. They will show whether profit recovered in 2025, a year in which employer National Insurance contributions rose across the UK from April. The first full year including Paddington and Kilburn will follow a year later, and will show what two more restaurants add to a 15-strong estate.
