How millets have resurfaced as a hip ingredient and now served in fine dining eateriesThe traditional grain has found top spot in global dishes like risotto, exotic salads and pizza.
05 Feb, 2018, 10.46 AM IST
GST Rates: Hotels may observe a day in protestHotels and restaurants in Karnataka may observe a day's bandh likely on May 30 to protest the steep 12 per cent and 18 per cent GST rates f...
22 May, 2017, 11.01 AM IST
Restaurants and fast-food joints could make you pay for 12% GST burdenA large number of fast-food joints, which are unclear which way their annual turnover will swing, may choose to collect 12%.
20 May, 2017, 05.39 PM IST
Common man may find 12% GST rate on food items a bit hard to digestThe GST rate for AC restaurants with bar license is fixed at 18%, but there is no clarity on how much tax AC restaurants without the bars h...
19 May, 2017, 09.39 PM IST
Come July, your favourite fast food or snack may become too costly for youHotels and fast-food joints are staring at an uncertain tax regime post July 1 as GST will cap composition benefits at Rs 50 lakh of annual...
22 Mar, 2017, 11.17 AM IST
Going cashless does not pay for hotelsM Rajendra, President of Karnataka State Hotel & Restaurants Association, says going cashless has meant increased costs for the hotel indus...
04 Jan, 2017, 01.22 PM IST
In a welcome disruption, hotel cleaners in Bengaluru turn techiesA city restaurant chain grooms village boys who take up low-skilled jobs to handle tech operation.
13 Oct, 2016, 01.11 PM IST
Clouds of uncertainty: Tourist inflow ebbs over Cauvery stirCelebrations are indeed grand this year but you get to see more of local faces and not those from outside, said Dr MA Sheela, a doctor in M...
10 Oct, 2016, 12.11 PM IST
A dozen holidays next month leave hoteliers worriedThe holiday season next month will begin on the 8th with second Saturday following by a Sunday, Ayudha Pooja and Vijayadashami and Muharram.
30 Sep, 2016, 02.55 PM IST
MTR founder P Sadananda Maiya raises Rs 200 crore to build food ventureCredited with pioneering the ready-to-eat food segment in the country, Maiya plans to develop his four-year-old startup into a $100-million...
18 May, 2016, 11.30 AM IST
Public road temporarily handed to Chinnaswamy Stadium has not been returned to BengalureansThe Chinnaswamy Stadium has appropriated a public road that was temporarily handed to it during the construction of Namma Metro's undergrou...
15 Dec, 2015, 10.22 AM IST
Ready-to-eat pioneer P Sadananda Maiya develops instant rasamAfter a research of about 10 years, P Sadananda Maiya has come up with two new types of masala cubes which dissolve into hot water.
27 Nov, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Bengaluru: Chemistry graduates in short supply as courses find no takersBengaluru's pharmaceutical industry is struggling to find chemistry graduates creating a huge demand-supply gap.
10 Mar, 2015, 12.59 PM IST
Loyalty pays for these two foodiesFood industry veteran P Sadananda Maiya knows them for half a century now. "I came to Bengaluru in 1964 to work with my father Yagna Naraya...
31 Jan, 2015, 12.40 PM IST
R Prabhakar - The man behind Bengaluru's DarshinisHailing from Kundapur in coastal Karnataka, Prabhakar’s midas touch, however, has transformed small-time hoteliers to millionaires.
21 Nov, 2014, 04.57 AM IST
- Wadiyar elected KSCA President after huge win
Wadiyar said it is overwhelming that his group won all 24 seats by convincing margins.
02 Dec, 2013, 01.16 PM IST
Innovations that helped MTR Foods become a big brandMTR's Sadananda Maiya says the he dreamt of the day when salesmen wearing neck ties would market products, just as HUL did.
09 Jun, 2010, 12.02 AM IST