Guest bio
- Restaurateur and co-founder of Hunger Inc. Hospitality, the group behind The Bombay Canteen, O Pedro and The Bombay Sweet Shop.
- A chemistry graduate of St Stephen's College with an MBA from IIM Kozhikode, he began in banking before turning to restaurants.
- Took a master's in hospitality management at Cornell and worked in New York with Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer.
Sameer Seth is a restaurateur and, with Yash Bhanage, co-founder of Hunger Inc. Hospitality, the group behind The Bombay Canteen, O Pedro, Veronica's and The Bombay Sweet Shop, now among Mumbai's most popular places to eat. A chemistry graduate of St Stephen's College in Delhi with an MBA from IIM Kozhikode, he began in banking before realising his interest lay in restaurants, learned the business in New Delhi, and took a master's in hospitality management at Cornell. In New York he worked with Daniel Boulud at Bar Boulud and Danny Meyer at North End Grill, and met the late chef Floyd Cardoz, who became his mentor and a business partner when Hunger Inc. was founded in 2013. He has partnered with Starbucks, and balances consistency with creativity and storytelling.
Show notes
The formula for success in the restaurant business
Welcome to this New Year 2025 special episode of Money Majlis XTRA, celebrating good food. Suvo Sarkar is in conversation in Mumbai with the talented young restauranteur Sameer Seth of Bombay Canteen fame.
What inspired a young banker to move to the intensely competitive F&B industry? How are the trends of eating out changing with millennials? Is consistency more important than creativity in the restaurant world? And why is storytelling a core component of a successful food business?
In a candid chat, the founder of Hunger Inc Hospitality, Sameer Seth, talks about the challenges and opportunities of scaling his restaurants, of partnering with Starbucks, of keeping the menu alive and of firing up his team every day.
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