Bawi Bride Kitchen

  • Mumbai, India
  • Travel & TourismHospitality, Food & BeveragesFood, Food & Beverages, Logistics

Bawi Bride Kitchen is a food services company that aims to make Parsi food accessible across India

Founded:
2013
Stage:
Steady Revenues
Market:
B2C

Startup Video

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All Media Coverage | www.bawibride.com/news

Jan 01, 2016


Founded

Bawi Bride went from being a blog to a weekend catering service

Jul

2013
New Product Release

Transition from weekend specials to a full service catering menu for 20 people

Jan

2014
New Product Release

We hosted our very first #ParsiPopup at the Pint Room in Bandra, #BeerandBhonu

Mar

New Team Member

Perzen quits her job and joins Bawi Bride full time. COO, Yezdi joins team

Jan

2015
Celebration

Celebrating 1 year of Parsi PopUps and serving 1000+ customers

Mar

Central Kitchen

Small Central Kitchen setup in Jogeshwari

Apr

New Product Release

Launch of our daily meal service

Apr

New Team Member

Two chefs join the team full time. We can now cater upto 50 people!

Apr

Media Coverage

Full page coverage in Mid-Day about our newly launched daily meal plans

Apr

Media Coverage

Covered as a Woman of Substance in India Today Magazine

Jun

New Product Release

Start of an 11 day Parsi Food Festival at JW Marriott Sahar

Aug

Customer

Served 4000+ Customers and cooked 1000+ litres of Dhansak.

Dec

Jobs

Team Summary

Of the 7 people in our team, 5 of our staff work primarily in the kitchen. While they are not formally trained cooks, each of them has experience working in a home kitchen and they have been completely trained in Parsi cooking by the management.

Yezdi Darukhanawalla, the Chief Operating Officer at Bawi Bride Kitchen is a part of the management team and comes with 12 years of operations experience. He previously was based in Singapore where he has managed a team of 15 staff and 50 vendors across 8 countries in the South-East Asian region. He is also an avid Parsi food lover and brings a wealth of experience when it comes to menu design as well as execution.

Perzen, the Founder and Chief Tasting Officer is formally trained in Hospitality Management and Marketing. She has 6 years of experience in catering, events and communications management and has previously curated menus and catered for events of 100+ people. Perzen's blog, BawiBride.com has also been awarded India's Best Regional Food Blog Award in 2014 & 2015 by the Food Bloggers Association.

Team

Founding Team

Perzen Patel

Perzen Patel


Founder
WORK

Bawi Bride Kitchen (2013 - present)
Chief Tasting Officer

Freelance Writer (2012 - present)
Food, Travel and Entrepreneurship Writer

Ennovent (2014 - 2015)
Manager - Marketing

EDUCATION

AUT University
Diploma in Event Management • 2010 - 2010

AUT University
Bachelor of International Hospitality Management • 2006 - 2009

AUT University
Bachelor of Business • 2006 - 2009

Team Members

Yezdi Darukhanawalla

Yezdi Darukhanawalla


COO

Product/Service Summary

Bawi Bride Kitchen is a food services company specialising in Parsi food. Our vision is to make Parsi food more accessible to all Parsi food lovers across India. Going forward, we wish to expand Bawi Bride Kitchen by establishing a central kitchen and launching a chain of homely cafe’s serving authentic Parsi food primarily in Mumbai’ suburbs.

Product/Service Descriptions

Party & Corporate Catering

We provide catering services for house parties as well as corporate events and can cater for upto 80 people.

Takeaway Kitchen

In November 2015 we started piloting our take-away services. By introducing a smaller menu and working with a range of delivery partners, we can now complete deliveries of small orders (1 - 10 people) within an 8km radius of our kitchen and a 1 - 1.5 hour lead time.

Daily Meals

We also offer a range of regular meal plans that clients can subscribe to on a daily, weekly or monthly basis and provide delivery across Mumbai. This is our ONLY product that primarily targets Parsi customers.

Popup Events & Festivals

We participate in a range of festivals across the city, host pop-up events as well as cooking classes. All of these activities help build brand visibility as well as credibility. They are also a great source of customer feedback. In August 2015, we also hosted an 11 day Parsi food festival in partnership with JW Marriott Sahar.