Mahesh Advani: From a clerk to businessman in UAE

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00:002000 I turned vegetarian. That's how I thought there's no good vegetarian restaurant in Dubai.

00:12I came to Dubai in 1982. I was 18 years old when I came. Started work in a textile market

00:18in a textile company. I worked there six years and started my own textile business in 1988.

00:23My major line is textile. We import the fabric for kunduras and that's like 33 years old. I was

00:31very passionate about getting success and making money. That was the beginning. 2000 I turned

00:36vegetarian. That's how I thought there's no good vegetarian restaurant in Dubai. In those days

00:46there were of course one or two but nobody was like 100% pure vegetarian. So we opened the first

00:53branch in Karama in 2001 and recently my son has joined me and we've opened two more branches.

01:02Right before COVID I joined the family business. Govinda's as well as our textile company

01:10but mainly focused on the restaurant industry. Two three things if I you know kind of what's

01:16helped me be in the restaurant industry from my father is that I've seen him work really hard

01:22since a very young age. He's 18. He started working when he was 18. He didn't even go to

01:28college and then throughout the years how he's managed like the textile business and then started

01:34a restaurant you know without having any experience or knowledge and then also focusing a lot on like

01:43people and I think that's very important in the restaurant industry like your interaction with

01:49people not like of course with your customers but also a lot with your internal staff. They're your

01:58customers as well right and making sure that they're always taken care of. That's what I've

02:02learned from him and then I think also that's one aspect but also giving back to the society in

02:09general. We do a lot of social initiatives through the textile company but then also we

02:16outside every restaurant he started this putting a fridge outside every restaurant where you know

02:23we put some just simple food like dal, chawal, maybe a vegetable as well and anybody can come

02:29and take it at any time during the whole day. As they say there's no substitute to hard work.

02:35I was very hard working but at the end of the day what matters more is hard work many people do.

02:42It is the you know blessings of your elders, parents which count and also the blessing of the

02:49lord which helps us to achieve this position. UAE or Dubai provides that perfect environment

02:57for people to you know the government enables us with the best of the facilities and

03:04infrastructure and the best of the rules and security and we have to then go ahead and

03:13you know do our own business and accomplish it. Going forward you know we want to focus on

03:19smaller outlets, a thousand square feet, 800 square feet where the focus is on quicker eating

03:27like so you have your pav bhaji, chole bhature but still keeping that ethos and values of

03:33keeping it healthy vegetarian.

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