My Retail Journey

I have enjoyed my pizzas better at the restaurant that at home, all along. It is more to do with the fun of dining – you plan a trip to the ...

The term “Happy Hours’ is better known for a “Buy One. Get One Drink Free” at most bars and restaurants all across the world. F&B Retail...

Restaurant business is damn exciting. While people don’t shop for clothes and mobiles every weekend, most people drop over for a good meal f...

I recently happened to meet Rahul Singh, Founder and CEO of “The Beer Café”, an upcoming chain in Delhi NCR, based out of Gurgaon. Rahul com...

I came across two special offers by India’s leading café chains Café Coffee Day and Barista today. One was through a email campaign – Buy On...

Even before I was part of the exciting world of Airports (in 2006), I have always been a big fan of the commercial opportunities at transit ...

I was recently at Forum Vijaya Mall (Chennai), one of the newest in town. It was a Sunday and I was there for lunch, but the upper level of ...

The Hotel Industry in India is facing tough times ever since the global recession occurred a couple of years ago. In my current role at Roya...

  After dabbling with various sectors in the Rs 14,000-crore RP-Sanjiv Goenka group for about a year, Shashwat Goenka , 23, son of group c...

  On Monday, 29th April 2013, The Tamil Nadu Hotels Association (TNHA) observed a one-day strike to protest against the Central Government...

I was at the Starbucks (SBUX) outlet in South Mumbai a few days ago. SBUX, in a JV with the Tata Group  opened their first outlet in India ...

I am not too surprised to see the two main distributors for Apple in India, namely Ingram and Redington jointly releasing full page Ads to p...

Recently, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu launched a populist move in Chennai to commemorate her birthday – a Government funded canteen tha...

  Franchising has been around for long. Many global brands such as Adidas, Benetton, Levis, Subway and a lot more have grown globally due ...

Aggressive store expansion means two things – heavy capital expenditure and lots of people to manage the stores. Every brand worth its salt ...

I asked him, “are there people in your store who have had a love-failure"??” and obviously he was confused. He called for his supervis...