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

Isha Sagarika -
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...
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Tania Lodi on Running a Cafe with Style, Sustainability & Kindness – A Conversation

Isha Sagarika -
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...
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Amit Bagga on Recreating 1947, Competing in Delhi, and the Scale of Daryaganj 

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

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

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

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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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The Art of Dessert: Alpa Pereira’s Toujours Journey

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Do you remember the first time you tasted something that made you stop mid-bite and think, "I had no idea this was possible"?  For an...
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Brewing BeeYoung: Abhinav Jindal on Reclaiming India’s Strong Beer Market

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Abhinav Jindal had spent close to two decades in India’s Alco-Bev industry. Consulting, distribution, retail - he had seen every layer of how the...
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Building Spaces That Breathe Identity, Intimacy, & Instagrammability With Nikita & Pawan Shahri

Isha Sagarika -
Ever heard of contrarian timing? It’s when you zig while everyone else zags. That’s exactly how Chrome Asia Hospitality began.  It was 2020. Pandemic. “While...
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The Making of a New Indian Table with Zorawar Kalra

Isha Sagarika -
When given a choice, almost every inheritor ‘preserves’ legacy. But Zorawar Kalra had to do it differently. So, he stopped chasing what "should" be...
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