The Consultant

CORPORATE CONSULTANT

Bon Appétit Management Company, Palo Alto, California

www.bamco.com

Extensive training program for their corporate chefs and cafes in Indian cooking and Global Vegan Cooking across the United States in such prestigious companies like Cisco, Yahoo, Intel, Target, Medtronic, and Best Buy. Hands-on workshops for the corporate chefs, book events including lunches and book signings for the staff in these companies are part of the partnership. I created and developed recipes that are featured at many of their client cafes across the United States.

  • Pitch man for Google’s Indian Café on behalf of Bon Appetit Mgt Co (now open as Baadal), Mountain View, CA
  • Menu consultant and trainer – Target HQ’s Northern Campus Indian café in Minneapolis, MN
  • Product Development – Target’s Archer Farms Brand of shelf-stable Indian dinners.
  • Gold standard recipes for a handful of Patak’s line of shelf-stable Indian meals.
  • Product development consultant General Mills.

RESTAURANT CONSULTANT

Om Minneapolis, Minnesota: Contemporary Indian Cuisine

Culineer (noun: a person who constructs, by use of culinary expertise and knowledgeable means, the art and science of good eating)

Extensive training program for their corporate chefs and cafes in Indian cooking and Global Vegan Cooking across the United States in such prestigious companies like Cisco, Yahoo, Intel, Target, Medtronic, and Best Buy. Hands-on workshops for the corporate chefs, book events including lunches and book signings for the staff in these companies are part of the partnership. I created and developed recipes that are featured at many of their client cafes across the United States.

RESTAURANT CONSULTANT

Naan

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

MIT, Boston, MA

An Indian and vegetarian-friendly café featuring a tandoor oven and menu written by acclaimed cookbook author and James Beard Award nominee, Chef Raghavan Iyer.

RESTAURANT CONSULTANT

Sambar

Culver City, CA

Menu consulting, training, and recipe development for Akasha Richmond’s hot new Indian-concept restaurant to open at the location that housed Ford’s Filling Station.

RESTAURANT CONSULTANT

Pizza Karma

Eden Prairie, MN

A restaurant concept to great reviews that showcases the global nature of the ubiquitous pie using Tandoor-fired ovens.