The way to excel in entrepreneurship can be a journey of success and failure. In life, with every goal being set, we always tend to learn from the experiences. The beauty of leadership is actually thriving amidst these challenges and inspiring emerging entrepreneurs. In the industry of food and hospitality, the competition is overwhelming. But any business offering value and quality always gets to sustain their objectives of scalability. Today, Business Outreach Magazine dives into sharing one of the most remarkable success stories of Kunal Shah, whose resilience and passion for restaurants elevated his commitment to entrepreneurship.
A Brief History-
Kunal Shah founded Crazanto in the busy region of Viman Nagar, Pune. What comes as an exceptional pure veg restaurant oozes positive vibes of cozy and family-friendly ambience. Kunal always had the growing vision to explore the restaurant industry with strategies to present one of the fine dining restaurants in India.
With Crazanto, he not only tapped into limitless opportunities, but also garnered growing appreciation from a diverse clientele. Kunal Shah studied a Master’s Degree in Information Technology from New Zealand and resided there for about 4 years. After that, he returned to India and started contributing his global expertise into the family business of corporate financing.
Struggles and Success Stories-
There cannot be any debate regarding Kunal’s love for food which motivated him to launch Crazanto in the first place. To him, any career growing individual should always look for opportunities that excites them, challenges them and helps them progress in life. The life of Kunal Shah came with several overbearing circumstances. He had to take full responsibility of the family after the demise of his father and grandfather. Their role in inspiring Kunal Shah was a significant part in his career.
But Kunal Shah championed his duties and gradually emerged as the ideal individual of modern society. With Crazanto, Kunal Shah has been exploring several avenues of growth and value-generation. He is looking towards expanding his restaurant business to other regions of India and initiate a successful franchise model for the customers. The self-made entrepreneur seems to be on a winning streak with corporate professionals, family gathering and friends appreciating the food offered by Crazanto. Throughout Kunal’s career, his wife played an integral role in his success. Her support amidst all the challenges elevated Kunal towards unparalleled growth.
In just 6 months, Crazanto, under the leadership of Kunal Shah, is putting joy and smiles on the faces of the customers. And this is what Kunal is most passionate about entrepreneurship. Due to Crazanto’s and Kunal Shah’s stellar customer service in the food and hospitality industry, they have won awards like Best pure veg restaurant of the year, Best Jain restaurant of the year, nominated by the restaurant awards Goa and Maharashtra and also got featured in Pune Times, where the food critics rated 4 on every aspect of the restaurant. When we analyzed the reason for Kunal Shah’s growing success, there were several notable establishments.
He is the leader who respects accountability on his strategic business decisions. Kunal Shah believes that every step could transition into something positive or negative. But an efficient leader like Kunal embraces any learning opportunity from business operations. Another important factor for Kunal is to be observant and open to feedback from team members. Kunal cannot stress enough over the fact of having an open conversation. His analytical prowess helped Crazanto gain great heights of success.
Key Takeaways-
In a business, taking calculated decisions are necessary and that takes a lot of courage and confidence. For the best interest of the team and company, Kunal Shah never has second thoughts on making difficult decisions to scale the business. While building Crazanto, Kunal Shah has been focusing heavily on team building and boosting the productivity levels of the company. His calm demeanor has always uplifted a perspective to go with logic and rationale for developing Crazanto. In this journey there have been several roadblocks along the way.
Some of them have been generating sustainable revenue, maintaining industry standards for health and sanitation requirements, maintaining government guidelines along with noting profits for the company, retaining staff by giving proper training and sustaining the Crazanto level of food quality and standards. While the journey has a lot to offer to Kunal Shah, he has been so optimistic about growing Crazanto. In any industry, there will be testing time and it shall be the leaders, who will understand what they are up against and curate a solution to tackle rising pain points.
Due to this approach, entrepreneurship has been a vibrant ecosystem of creativity and innovation. When we asked Kunal Shah about his take on growth, he said, “Take up one idea. Make that one idea of your life, thinking about it, dreaming about it and ultimately live it. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
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