KIEV, Dec. 26 -- The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) will lend $6.8 million to Shvydko-Ukraine, Ukraine's second-largest fast food restaurant chain, after McDonald's.

The loan finds will be spent on opening 17 new Shvydko quick-service restaurants in Kiev, the construction of a new commissary and the implementation of a new computer management system for the chain, OPIC reported in a press release carried by Interfax-Ukraine.