Riyaz Amlani:

CEO and MD, Impresario Entertainment & Hospitality, Riyaaz Amlani is one of India’s most successful restaurateurs. He is one such person who revolutionized elegance and instills voguish charm to the Indian hospitality scene.

Heads of Impresario Foods, who first became famous for the high-volume, low-margin ‘college-crowd’ Mocha café chain, realized that as Indians eat out more, they want finer dining in “casual” surroundings. So, he came up with lower-volume, higher-margin restaurant brands like Salt Water Cafe and Smoke House Deli (eight outlets across three cities in six years).

Today, it has grown into 65 crore businesses with 20 percent profit margins and 34 outlets across 11 cities in 13 years.

Ashish Kapur:

An electronics and telecom engineer who worked for GE Capital in the U.S. for two years, Ashish Kapur is the cofounder and managing director of the Chinese Quick Service Restaurant chain, Yo! China. It was the love of food and the burning desire to build his own enterprise pushed Ashish to give to opt for such ideas.

Kapur opened the first Yo! China at MGF mall at Gurgaon in 2003. It was at a time when India didn’t have any pan-India Chinese restaurant brand. So, it became an instant hit with consumers.

"The response was phenomenal. We were stumped," exclaimed Ashish Kapur.

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