In a bid to encourage aspiring chefs to enter the culinary business and understand how the food and beverages business runs, Hyderabad based start-up, The Culinary Lounge has officially launched a new platform called ‘HandiTalks’. This is a platform where incumbents and other foodprenuers come to share their journey, interact with aspiring entrepreneurs and develop culinary ideas.
HandiTalks was first launched in 2018 on a pilot basis, which garnered interest of over 300 food enthusiasts signing up for the interactive sessions that happen on the last Saturday of every month.
HandiTalks is the brainchild of Gopi Krishna Byluppala, a 36-year-old serial entrepreneur along with his Key Partner Sushma Thotta.
“We wanted to celebrate cooking, learning, enjoying food and get culinary enthusiasts in touch with each other to know how enjoyable or tough to get into F&B business. HandiTalks, is a congregation of intellectuals to network and to talk on food & beverages business and to help build the ecosystem in a fun filled, evocative manner,” says the founder Gopi Krishna Byluppala.
Sushma adds that HandiTalks offers the opportunity for people to learn all about the food business on the go and pick up tricks of the trade from incumbents while also enriching their culinary knowledge.
The last edition of HandiTalks saw foodprenuer Neehar Bisabathini, the founder of Hyderabad-based food joint Churrolto share his entrepreneurial journey of building a savoury and desert food outlet and how he grew his business from a small 400 square foot place to establish a vast place in the upmarket Jubilee hills. He shared his challenges in building his venture, managing kitchen, standing at the counter, and his interactions with variety of customers. The interaction with this budding entrepreneur was the longest of all the previous editions of HandiTalks.
The Culinary Lounge is a bootstrapped, angel funded startup that aims to tap its next round of funding soon. This year, the startup is looking increase its team size to 50 and scale up to other cities this year. Till now 50+ events for Corporate, 1800+ for kids, 150+ private events and experiential dinners have been hosted at The Culinary Lounge.
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