of owning and operating a successful res-
taurant. Three years later, having obtained
a myriad of new business insights and ea-
ger to return to the Greater Toronto Area
(GTA), the Gulati family sold the Kitchener
restaurant and went in search of their next
business venture.
At the same time, their family celebrated
Shraey’s first wedding anniversary with
his wife, Ameen, at a restaurant in Bramp-
ton. In jest, Gajendra Gulati mentioned to
the restaurant owner that he would like to
purchase the business and take over. As
luck would have it, the owner was indeed
in the market to sell and so began the
Gulati family’s most successful Canadian
business endeavour to date, as the own-
ers of North America’s largest Indian buf-
fet and restaurant, Tandoori Flame. With
Jyoti Gulati, Shraey’s mother, looking af-
ter food quality and catering, Shraey was
able to concentrate on the business’s cus-
tomer service and marketing plan with the
help of Ameen and younger brother Aman,
while Gajendra managed the finances and
economics of the business.
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