What is your favourite Street food?
My is the Vada Pav!

Here is a very interesting story on Indias biggest Vada Pav selling company.
"Goli Vada Pav"

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1 / Goli Vada Pav was founded by Venkatesh Iyer in 2004 . It is an Indian fast food restaurant chain originated from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

2/ He chose vadapav because of the convenience it offers to make, deliver and eat. It’s a finger food, so you don’t need a plate, spoon or table. It’s a mobile food which you can drive and eat, or hang in a bus and eat,

3/ The chain started operations in early 2004 with a single ‘Quick service restaurant’. The first outlet was set up in Kalyan, a suburban locality in Mumbai , but soon
ran into problems. The handmade patties varied in quality and had a short shelf life, and some were pilfered.

4/ He always believed that the food served should be automated which brought more hygiene in the standards.

5/ He approached a friend who was CEO of Vista Processed Foods, a US company that supplied frozen vegetable and chicken patties to McDonald’s in India. Vista agreed to supply frozen patties to them which solved the problem of inconsistent quality and short shelf-life.

6/ Soon they introduced varies types of vada pav like cheese vada pav, scheswan vada pav, etc.

7/ Another interesting thing about them was the style in which they served . they used to say a dialog of a movie and relate it to their product .
For Eg; from the movie sholey;
"Hamne aapka namak khaya hai sardar, Aab Goli ka vada pav kha".

8/ Mr Venkatesh was trying to raise funds in late 2008, the global financial crisis prompted five potential investors to withdraw. This left Goli Vada Pav close to collapse.

9/ There were times when the company was at the threat of bankruptcy . But the hardworking by all the employees and the chairman ,then never left hopes and worked hard.

10/ Soon these patience , hardwork brought glories Goli Vada Pav has 156 stores, up from 20 at the end of 2009. It sells 75,000-100,000 vada pavs daily. Profitable and with revenues expected to reach $3.2m this year, it plans to have 500 outlets by 2015.

11/ They adopted a very interesting strategy for their advertisements . They tied up with the movie directors and asked them to shoot a scene in their shop and they will stick the movie banner in their shop which was viewed by thousands of people in a day.

12/ He also wrote his autobiography . The book is named "My Journey With Vada Pav". It is an very interesting book.

13/ Lessons:

1. Goli Vada Pav has grown rapidly by focusing on what it does best and finding good partners to do the rest.

2. A founder has to be both persistent and adaptable. Mr Venkatesh was prepared to change the offering, to use contacts and to change geographical location

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