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Siddhu Kalliguddi and the Discipline of Operational Trust With Reliability-First Innovation

Let’s put it straight: Siddhu Kalliguddi, at the recent RTC event in Dubai hosted by Restroworks, pointed out that the basic conversation around restaurant technology...

Engineering Invisible IT and the Future of Retail With Sunil Tauro

Have you ever felt that pressure when there is a line of impatient customers in front of you and you can’t do anything because...

Why Many QSR Technologies Fail: The Case for Kitchen-First Innovation With Nikhil Sharma

If you're a tech leader working in the QSR industry, here's some advice for you: “Spend a week in the kitchen.” And no, don’t just...

“Brand-building is All About Filling the Gap Between What You Promise and What You Deliver,” Ankit Gupta, Co-founder, Burma Burma

Ankit Gupta belongs to a lineage of hoteliers and restaurateurs. Maybe that's why opening a brand of his own was never a question of...

The Story Behind Belgian Waffle: How Shrey Aggarwal Built India’s Largest Waffle Chain

Over 47,500 waffles are sold daily across 700+ outlets in 199+ cities, generating somewhere around Rs 450 crore in revenue.   Ten years ago, The Belgian...

Tania Lodi on Running a Cafe with Style, Sustainability & Kindness – A Conversation

There is a really popular saying: If it didn’t make it to Instagram, did it even happen? We’re living in a time where flaunting one’s...

Amit Bagga on Recreating 1947, Competing in Delhi, and the Scale of Daryaganj 

Amit Bagga says he wants to “build a self-sustaining hospitality platform that creates mass employment, feeds communities, and, eventually, outlives him.”  Daryaganj is his way...

‘There is No Substitute to Hard Work’: Eti Bhasin on Building Dhaba Lane in Dubai

This story, too, begins where most great food stories do: with hunger. Eti Bhasin’s father is a chartered accountant. The kind who measures and re-measures...

Ish Patil on Building Donmai & Why Intentional Hospitality Is the Future of Dining

It started with a bowl of ramen in an anime. Literally! Growing up on Japanese animation, Ish Patil was particularly moved by a scene in...

The Ascent of Kainaz Messman: Strategy, Scarcity, and Scale Behind Theobroma’s Valuation Boom

It was 2003, and Kainaz Messman Harchandrai was just 24, living her dream life. As a pastry chef for a top hospitality brand, she...

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