New York’s Indian restaurant loses flavour as tariffs bite

NOT EVERY OPERATOR says they’re being affected.

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Pavan Pardasani, the new chief executive officer of JKS Indian restaurants, is overseeing the opening of the group’s first two US-based restaurants, Ambassadors Clubhouse in NewYorkand Gymkhana in Las Vegas. “Right now, we haven’t been directly impacted,” he says. But the tariff-related cost increases “do create disruption, and that’s unfortunate for small business owners. It’s a real thing”