Our alumnus has started an unusual but profitable business of catering ready-to-eat meals in Pune.
The partners are:
Vinamra Pandiya (Chemical 2004, IT-BHU) vinamra [DOT] pandiya [AT] momskitchen [DOT] in
Ashwani Kumar Singh Rathore (Civil 2005, NIT-Allahabad) ashwani [DOT] rathore [AT] momskitchen [DOT] in
Their interview appeared in Youth Curry magazine:
http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/
Interview with Vinamra Pandiya and Ashwini Rathod
Company: Mom's Kitchen
Founded: September 1 2006
Age: 26
Educational background: Vinamra (IT BHU 2004 batch, Infosys from campus placement); Aswini Rathod (NIT Allahabad 2005 batch, Cognizant from campus placement).
Vinamra and I are childhood friends. He graduated from IT BHU in 2005 and I passed out of NIT Allahabad the same year. I joined Cognizant while he was in Infosys. Initially we were in Bangalore, then we moved to Pune.
We had big dreams in our college days. Ki kuch karna hai. That coupled with the frustration of working in a big company ("at the end of the day you know, you do nothing!) led to the idea of starting a business.
Website: http://www.momskitchen.in/Aboutus.htm
Also good to see techies involved in such a hands-on business.
Mom's Kitchen got a canny feel for the market as well. A budget version of the dabba was introduced esp. for students @ Rs 25. It has everything except foil packaging and raita!
At current order levels Mom's Kitchen will do Rs 65 lakhs worth of business in the coming year. Probably more, with expansion in Pune as well as Chennai on the cards.
Here's wishing them all the very best!
Posted by Rashmi Bansal at 7:22:00 PM 42 comments