The award was presented for being an outstanding performer in the food industry
Gujarat based tea chain ‘Tea Post’ has received the Foodpreneur of the Year-2021 MSME award by the Chamber for Advancement of Small & Medium Businesses (CASMB), Mumbai. The award was presented to Tea Post founder Mr Darshan Dashani in a virtual summit which took place last month.
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On receiving the award, Tea Post founder Mr Darshan Dashani said, “Tea post was started with the tagline ‘Apni Chai ki Dukan’ and since its inception, it has been our constant endeavor to provide good quality hygienic and inexpensive tea to the tea lovers of the country with a good ambience. At ‘Tea Post’ we are extremely delighted to have received this award and we always believed in sustainable development so from the very first day we have been using biodegradable products to serve tea and snacks to our customers. Earlier there were many café’s which were dedicated to coffee but ‘Tea Post’ was started specifically to cater to the tea lovers and it was also a small attempt to turn the unorganized sector of selling tea which takes place through roadside tea vendors into an organized one. And this award reflects the ongoing efforts at ‘Tea Post’ for the same”.
‘Tea Post’ was selected by the CASMB from 450 entries it had received for ‘Foodpreneur of the year-2021’ award.
Last year ‘Tea Post’ was also appreciated by the Rajkot City police for its contribution during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic where it provided round the clock refreshments to 1100 frontline warriors in Rajkot which included the Rajkot city police personnel’s, SRP jawans, home guards, GRD and traffic brigade jawans during the lockdown period.
About ‘Tea Post’:-
‘Tea Post’ was started by Mr Darshan Dashani in 2013 in Rajkot where the first outlet was setup on Kalawad road. Mr Dashani who is from Dhari village of Amreli belongs to a family of academicians and is a first-generation entrepreneur. After completing his Mpharm (Master of Pharmacy) degree and having worked as a marketing executive for a few years, Mr Dashani decided to start his own business in 2008. Apart from ‘Tea Post’ he also owns a tea brand by the name ‘Ameri.’ In less than a decade of beginning operation where the firm focused on a franchise based model giving opportunity to its stakeholders to earn a good profit over a small investment, Tea Post today has a total of 200 outlets across four states namely Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra where it has its operations in cities like Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Vadodara, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Jaipur, Udaipur, Bikaner, Indore, Mumbai and Pune having approximately 500 employees. Apart from tea, ‘Tea Post’ is also promoting traditional snacks at its outlets and it currently it caters to more than 2 million customers through its outlets across the country.
‘Tea Post’ is also one of the fastest growing firm in the food industry where amid the pandemic it has opened more than 30 outlets in the last 10 months. And is all set to go global with the process in place for opening the first international outlet in Dubai.
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