Taste managing a business idea

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Nov 05 2003, 00:00 IST

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Fawzia Ahmed, 35, hated to do the routine daal-chawal-sabzi number. But she loved to stun her guests with exotic dishes which kept their taste buds tingling for more. Then, ever since she can remember, she’s been mad about movies and has been collecting film posters. She has also kept her foot tapping to that popular number of the times. And, just for fun, she enrolled for an ice-cream-making course in the UK some years ago. So put all these fancies of Fawzia Ahmed together and you have Big Chill, an ultra-popular ice-cream cafe in Delhi. And a business success story that was simply a lot of fun to create.

The queues outside Big Chill are long indeed, getting a table could easily mean a half an hour wait, usually at any time in the day. Since it started three years ago, business has trebled.


Fawzia Ahmed: Pleasing palettes

The place offers Mediterranean food, ice-creams and desserts that are conjured up by Fawzia in the kitchen. The restaurant is plasteredwith film posters and the speakers drum out songs that both you and your uncle would recognise. Talk about seeing a fantasy come to life. As a

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