The birth and growth of a 'fried onion' business!

For decades it has been a ritual in the Roy family to make mutton biryani on Sundays. In its preparation, while the women folk spent most of Sunday morning peeling, chopping and frying onions, everyone had to patiently deal with the 'burning eye'. One day fed up with the chore, Satyajit Roy said "Surely fried onions must be available in the market, why doesn't someone pick them up". And he immediately began searching for it online, only to realize that fried onions were available abroad, but not in India. Thus was born the idea of EGK Foods Pvt. Ltd. For more on this story and to get your company featured, subscribe to the SME print edition.

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