ARUN CHANDA Arun Chanda is the Founder and Director of the Mint-HRC, a 360 degree hospitality consulting group based out of New Delhi, India. Arun is a hotel management graduate from IHMCT&AN from the 1993 batch and has a repertoire of more than 18 years in the hospitality industry, gaining rich hands on experience in Culinary & F&B operations & management. His journey in the industry has been very successful with many achievements at various levels of operation. His achievement started right at the first year of his career when he was awarded as the “MOST PROMISING & UPCOMING CHEF OF THE YEAR” in 1993 at Hotel Cidade de Goa, a 5 star beach resort in Dona Paula, Goa. And since then he has received many accolades from being an award winning chef to a successful General Manager to becoming a successful hospitality consultant working with large & renowned hospitality groups in Goa, Mumbai, Bhopal, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi/NCR & Punjab. In mid 2009, he formed his own company called “Mint Hotels & Restaurants Consultancy Pvt Ltd”, based out of New Delhi, India. Mint operations started in Aug 2009, with a vision of achieving other people’s dreams of owning successful business operations in the F&B space. Arun believes in taking the complete ownership of all the new brands that he creates, ensuring top quality & delivery on time. By saying “You Dream, We Deliver”, Mint is committed to your dreams. In the last two years, Mint has achieved to build a few new brands like Café Oz, an Aussie concept with 2 outlets in Delhi, one in Chandigarh & one in Bangalore, Greek Food & Beyond, a Mediterranean Cafe in Bhopal, Bagel’s Café, a European Café having 4 outlets in Delhi/NCR & planning further expansion, The Mind Café, a Singapore based board games game chain in Gurgaon, Fruto Fresh, a heath café in Green Park, New Delhi, Crazy Burger, a burger QSR in Patiala, all of them running very successfully and planning to further expand their chains. At present, Mint is working on a few more new projects in New Delhi/NCR, Bhopal, Trivandrum and Chennai in the café, QSR & fine dining space, with different F&B concepts. Mint –HRC has a competent team of professionals in all verticals of hospitality and provides complete restaurant solutions right from conceiving an idea, developing the concept, plan & execute with every possible service related to set up a F&B business and therefore, a 360 degree hospitality firm in the true sense of the term. For more details check our website: www. mint-hrc.com