Indian Restaurant Congress

About The Event

Food for Thought with a Regional Touch

South Indian market has rewritten the rules of doing business in the past and continues to be one of the raring one. Cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad amongst others have welcomed many great brands that have done great businesses. Restaurant India South 2018 will discuss and debate about creating the leaders of tomorrow. With a clear business focus in mind, investors, chain restaurants, F&B entrepreneurs, regional restaurant owners, start-ups and tech companies, the one day conference will focus on Building Great Business in the region.

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Roundtables

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The disruption is not so much about food tech as it is about Food Itself. We are ushering a new era of food that stems from a change in consumer lifestyle and perception about Good Food.

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Featuring

Masters & Mentors will come to life when Entrepreneur hosts its Continuing event series engaging progressive thinkers, influencers and entrepreneurs in a riveting discussion moderated by our Editor's.

Our Speakers

Rajeev Varman

Conference Chairperson & CEO, Burger King India

Jagvir Singh Rana

Managing Director India & Middle East, HMSHost

Hemant Oberoi

Chef and Owner, Hemant Oberoi

Shanti Mohan

Co-Founder and CEO, LetsVenture

Nirupa Shankar

Director, Brigade Hospitality

Chef Abhijit Saha

Founder & Director, Avant Garde Hospitality

Rashmi Daga

Founder & CEO, FreshMenu

Siegfried Nierhaus

Managing Director, Atlas Hospitality

Karan Tanna

Founder and CEO, Yellow Tie Hospitality

Ashish Thadani

CEO, Ciclo Cafe Pvt Ltd.

Ashish Ugal

Executive Chef, Taj Bangalore

Nabi Naseeb

CEO, Doner and Gyros

Prashant Parameshwaran

MD & CEO, Kottaram Agro Foods

Pravesh Pandey

Director, Byg Brewski Brewing Company

Anirudh Kheny

Partner, 1Q1 Kitchen & Bar-Plate Project Hospitality

Sanjay Kumar

CEO, Elior India

Chaitanya Chitta

Co-founder, Goodness! Beverages

Ghanshyam Singh

Director-Supply Chain Management & Quality Assurance, Chai Point

Sandipan Mitra

Co-Founder & CEO, HungerBox

Anurudh Khanna

Executive Chef, Shangri-La

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CONFERENCE

Full day conference will bring together industry veterans to interact and draw attention to best practices and promote innovation to capture consumer interest that will help grow the Indian Restaurant Sector.

Day 1

Inaugural Session	A Taste Of Tomorrow : Changing Restaurant Industry In South India
Keynote Session:	Food Trends of Today and Tomorrow
Session 1:	I Know Innovation: I Know Growth
Session 2:	Chef Talks: Tasting Tomorrow...Today
Session 3:	Building Business: Growing From Local To National
Session 4:	Where's The Money: 2018-2018 Capital Connection
Keynote Sesson :	Technologies to Catapult Your Restaurant Business

Conference Agenda December, 2018

Schedules

10:15AM - 11:00AM Inaugural Session: A Taste Of Tomorrow : Changing Restaurant Industry In South India
- The State of the Restaurant Industry: New Trends in South Indian market and Opportunity India
- Standing ahead of the curve: Heritage-Story Telling Experience through Food
11:00 AM -11:15 AM Keynote Session: Food Trends of Today and Tomorrow
- What Tomorrow's Restaurant Needs to be serving
- Why Food Design is Integral
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11:15 AM -12:00 PM Session 1: I Know Innovation: I Know Growth
- An appetite for change: Focussing on quality, sustainability and convenience
- The opportunity: New Formats, Contemporary stores , High on Expereince
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12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Keynote Euromonitor

This session will highlight key takeaways from Euromonitor International’s special report that is going to be exclusively shared at Restaurant India 2018 – South India Edition. Learn about the global trends in Consumer Foodservice industry Read More
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM Session 2: Chef Talks: Tasting Tomorrow...Today
- Taking authentic south Indian restaurants Pan India and In global markets
- What happens when expansion extends beyond the original geographic market area; how to keep the stores consistent and the locations similar?
- Multiple units, multiple concepts: how the modern day franchise owners' model is changing?
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1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Session 3: Building Business: Growing From Local To National
- How to keep store consistent and location similar: Expanding beyond geographies
- Multiple Units, Multiple Franchise: What Works in Franchising
- Why South India is a great market for QSR: Ecosystem, acceptance
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2:30 PM - 3:15 PM Session 4: Where's The Money: 2018-2018 Capital Connection
- What's catching investors' attention in 2018
- Change in strategy to back food tech start-ups, separating wheat from chaff
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Awards

Restaurant Awards

Best National Restaurant
Best Emerging QSR Chain of the Year
Best 24 hour dining

Cafe & Bakery Awards

Most innovative Tea Cafe of the Year
Best Ice-Cream Parlour of the Year
Best Juice / Shake Parlour of the Year

Nightlife Awards

Restro-Bar with best live events
Best Theme Gastro Pub of the Year
Microbrewery of the Year

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Exhibition

Understanding this growing need and opportunity
for integrated Restaurant businesses, we are please to share
with you that parallel to the convention will be an expo designed as
one stop shop for exploring: best technology suppliers, innovative tools,
tie-up with best in league distribution channels, co-branding alliances,
international development opportunities, best data management and teacher training
tools and many more either to enhance the learning process or to evaluate it in
perspective of helping build the Indian Restaurant system on international lines.

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Awards

Restaurant Awards

Best National Restaurant
Best Emerging QSR Chain of the Year
Best 24 hour dining

Cafe & Bakery Awards

Most innovative Tea Cafe of the Year
Best Ice-Cream Parlour of the Year
Best Juice / Shake Parlour of the Year

Nightlife Awards

Restro-Bar with best live events
Best Theme Gastro Pub of the Year
Microbrewery of the Year

Nominate Yourself

Exhibition

Understanding this growing need and opportunity for integrated education businesses, we are please to share with you that parallel to the convention will be an expo designed as one stop shop for exploring: best technology suppliers, innovative tools, tie-up with best in league distribution channels, co-branding alliances, international development opportunities, best data management and teacher training tools and many more either to enhance the learning process or to evaluate it in perspective of helping build the Indian education system on international lines.

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