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What workedThe owner of a biriyani hotel in Naogaon, in a Prothom Alo report · Started in 1974

From a six-seat tin shed to five storeys, feeding 700-800 people a day

Goat biriyani at 200 taka a plate and chicken polao and kachchi at 180, with 700-800 people eating there each day across lunch and dinner. It began in 1974 as a tin shed seating six and is now a five-storey building with 25 staff.

On Dharmatala Road in Naogaon town, a man now about 75 opened a tin-shed eating house in 1974 with seating for six. Fifty years on the hotel occupies a five-storey building, seats 60-65 at a time and feeds 700-800 people a day between lunch and dinner. Goat biriyani sells at 200 taka a plate and chicken polao and kachchi at 180. The kitchen gets through 80 kg of rice a day for biriyani, kachchi and polao plus another 60 kg of plain rice, 70-75 kg of goat meat and 80-90 chickens, with 25 staff. He runs it with his two younger brothers and says he still works from morning until night. The report gives no income, profit or set-up figure at all — only the plate prices and the daily consumption.

Lessons

  1. 1.A single-dish reputation compounds: fifty years in one spot turned six seats into 700-800 covers a day, with no second branch
  2. 2.The real control in a biriyani shop is the daily raw-material count: the plate price means nothing unless 80 kg of rice and 70-75 kg of meat are known

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