NRAI's First Cloud Kitchen Convention

The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI)'s Mumbai Chapter held India's biggest Cloud Kitchen Convention powered by PetPooja. Established in the year 1982, NRAI is the voice of the Indian Restaurant Industry that has successfully provided opportunities to educate various hospitality chains on the avenues of technology, marketing, operations and more by keeping up with the trends.

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The Cloud Kitchen Convention, spearheaded by Pranav Rungta, NRAI Mumbai Chapter Head; Director of Mint Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. and Ms. Rachel Goenka, NRAI Mumbai Chapter Head; Founder & CEO of The Chocolate Spoon Company was an exclusive and first-of-its-kind event by the industry, for the industry, where prominent stakeholders from the cloud kitchen space got together and shared extensive information, knowledge and cutting edge insights on the subject.

The convention commenced by Ms. Pritee Chaudhary, IRS - Regional Director of FSSAI, West Region followed by a welcome address by Kabir Suri, NRAI President; Director of Azure Hospitality. The opening keynote address by Kallol Banerjee, Co-Founder of Rebel Foods showcased the importance of incorporating cloud kitchens into the Indian Restaurant Industry with the example of Faasos's journey to achieving success.

The first panel moderated by Anurag Katriar, Founder & MD of Indigo Hospitality spoke about 'Creating a profitable Cloud Kitchen Business' with insights from Anshul Gupta, Co-Founder of Box8, Kabir Bose, Co-Founder & CEO of Burgernama and Bansi Kotecha of Founder of Kytchens, highlighting the importance of product differentiation in securing customer loyalty, Anurag Mehrotra, Co-Founder & CEO of Charcoal Eats and Raymond Andrews, Founder of Biryani Blues delving deeper into Single Cuisine vs Horizontal play in Cuisines and Mohit Gupta, CoFounder of Zomato commenting on aggregators and the question of them being a boon or bane for cloud kitchen businesses among more.