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Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Surat Edition

Name: Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Surat Edition
Start: 2026-06-12T19:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-06-12T21:00:00+05:30
Location: DevX Piplod

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Friday, 12 June, 7 pm - 9 pm

DevX Piplod

3rd Floor, Stalwart Insignia, University Airport Road, beside Shantiniketan, Piplod, Surat, Gujarat 395007

DevX is on the 3rd floor of the Stalwart Insignia building on University Airport Road, next to Shantiniketan in Piplod. Take the lift to the 3rd floor.

From Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Surat Edition

About

Building a food brand that scales is hard. The early traction is one thing. Turning that into a brand that holds up as it grows, across teams, locations, and demand, is a different challenge altogether. It takes the right growth choices, operations that do not break under scale, and a clear sense of the economics that keep it all healthy. We will hear from food founders who have built and scaled their brands. They will talk about when and how to grow, how to keep quality consistent as the brand expands, what to standardize and what to leave flexible, and how to think about partners and franchising as part of the journey. We will get into the unit economics too. What a healthy model looks like, how the numbers shift as you scale, what support a growing brand actually needs, and the mistakes that cost the most in the early push to expand. If you are building a food brand and thinking about how to scale it, come join the conversation.

Hosts & speakers

Managing Director and Business Head · Mr. Hospitality and Resources

Speaker

Rushabh Khatri

Founder · BROKAA FOODS

Who was there

Co-Founder · eChai Ventures

Nadeem Jafri

Founder · Heartymart

Veeral Luvani

Founder · Wizcoder Ai Labs Pvt Ltd

Aman Malik

Business Developer · Sehyog

Ankit Jesar

Gujarat cybersecurity council

Bhushan Patil

Founder · scaleus.space

Heet Thakar

Director · PDD CloudKitchen Private Limited

Jaymin Bhavsar

Fresher · Surat

Jc Vishal Shah

Founder · Alleanza Consultants

Lomash Relia

Engineer · KissanAI, Ex ISRO, Autonomous Systems

Manoj Koshiya

Manufacturing, R&D · Eximburg International pvt ltd

Nikesh Morvadiya

Founder · Bhavna Khakhra

Parin Shah

Co-Founder · FoodFinity Pvt Ltd - AAHYU KITCHEN , Coffeelinks LLP - NOCHbox

Shantanu Maurya

Founder · Nolltrix

Soham Chasiya

Accounting & Fund Raising Consultant · A S Associate

Suraj Singh

Founder · OmnixOne

Vishal Makwana

Founder · Purexa Powders Private Limited

Founder · Mindful Consulting Hub

Shreyas Panchal

Founder · Moonshot design

Shubham Agarwal

Founder · GIRI FINCONSULT

Surabhi Agrawal

Principle Designer · Hiraya

Vivek Mishra

Founder · Shri Lakshmi transports

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