Born in 2011, Chrome Hospitality is an Indian boutique hospitality company that manages and consults restaurants across the country. With a dedicated team comprising creative designers and ingenious storytellers to build innovative brands and experiences to unleash the imagination. They currently operate ten outlets in Mumbai with signature brands like London Taxi, Butterfly High, Blah! and more.
Chrome is also actively into the cloud kitchen space-enhancing brand expansion and scaling up as they craft brands for new outgoing young Indians and a benchmark in the premium-casual-dining sector, with award-winning restaurants and cloud kitchens across the Indian Cuisine landscape possessing the tools, knowledge and the expertise to make impactful brands that create a real, tangible difference.
Pawan Shahri – The CEO and Founder of Chrome Asia.
Pawan Shahri – The CEO and Founder of Chrome Asia, an integrated grade A hospitality consulting and management service. Co-founder of BroEat! India’s first WhatsApp-based menu exploration and online ordering platform and has served as a core team member for the NRAI Youth Committee. Pawan has numerous accolades and credit for creating specialized experiences in the nightlife segment bringing direct revenues to the pubs and venues.
From 2018 to the present a managing partner at nine food and beverage outposts in Mumbai as – Blah!, Butterfly High, London Taxi, Mahesh Lunch Home and 2 Cloud Kitchen Brands Shuk and South Street. The 10-year pursuit in leadership includes managing and executing some of the biggest food and beverage and Entertainment IPs in India like The Picnic Project, Dessert Garden, Grazia Fashion Trunk, Femina Shop Hive and more. Pawan was featured in Mans World List of Men Of The Year 2021.
Over the last 10 years, Pawan has worked with over 250+ hospitality brands across the country to help them increase brand value and sales while ensuring bottom-line profitability.
Dhaval Udeshi – Born and raised in Mumbai the Co-founder of Chrome Hospitality can be defined as “The Modern Nomad” with his love for Food, Travel, and Story Telling. From the humble beginnings of starting a modest eathouse in his locality to becoming a partner of Mumbai’s most loved and acclaimed bars and restaurants, his journey has been nothing less than a fairytale. Dhaval’s endeavor has been constant to create brands and experiences for people and bring them together in Mumbai and USA.
From building brands like Falafels: middle-eastern cuisine in a QSR and vegetarian avatar. Hopping Chef: a concept in India where celebrity chefs come over and cook a meal. Culinary Social: a thematic travel joint taking people on a food journey across the world. Simply Potatoes: a restaurant of all things baked and in potatoes and currently focusing on Project “Fetch” brings great food made with premium, fresh, locally sourced Indian ingredients and enables ‘petworking’ of dogs and dog lovers to make the happiest place in Mumbai Dhaval’s efforts toward creating value propositions in Mumbai’s food and beverage ecosystem have been well-recognized too. London Taxi won 5 awards in its first year, and Butterfly High is currently one of the top-rated bars in Mumbai.
Aside from his contribution to Chrome Hospitality Dhaval is also keen on giving back and helping businesses grow by creating Food Mechanic, a restaurant consulting and advisory firm.
The dynamic duo amidst covid has been unstoppable with the chrome hospitality team they have managed to start more 6/7 outlets to keep food and beverage workers employed while serving the city with great food and wholesome memories. Pawan and Dhaval are envisioned creating more 6/7 outlets in the coming time to bring the city and its audience unique experiences. Chrome hospitality has a couple of more exciting projects under its sleeve at hot and busy locations like Powai, Chembur, Goa, and more plans for the global market, hence they make one of the exciting brands to watch out for.
