Start-up Bootcamp for Foodpreneurs

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Startup Boot camp for Foodpreneurs-A group mentoring workshop

(For aspiring entrepreneur in food industry)

1. Introduction
Start-up Bootcamp for Foodpreneurs is a group mentoring workshop from Lemon Ideas
that provides opportunity to understand the dos and don’ts about a food venture for
aspiring entrepreneurs.

To support the increasing interest of individuals

in food domain, Lemon Ideas has designed this
unique boot-camp with support of prominent
and renowned names of hospitality industry
which brings a lot of experience to help out
individuals inpursuing an entrepreneurial career
in hospitality business.

This workshop will help you learn how to cook

and serve the tastiest and delicious business
model in front of the customers and investors to
suit their taste buds.

2. Workshop Ingredients:
The overall workshop is divided into four parts

 Foundation Sessions
 Internships& visits
 Pilot Business around an idea
 A Course from ACTON USA
 “I am Me” program by Lighthouse People

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3. Intended Audience

There are no age criteria for the course. Anyone

interested in exploring and learning the insights of
a food business and wants to start his/her own
business in food industry.

4. Duration& Batch Size:

10 Weeks program
Max. Candidates: 15#

5. Workshop Objectives
 To provide the insights of hospitality business.
 To help gaining the knowledge of different areas
of running a successful business.
 To help ideate and generate new business ideas in
the food domain.
 To provide on ground knowledge by giving them
the opportunity of internship at the food chains in
the city.

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 To provide opportunity to work on a pilot module of their idea to develop a proof

of concept.
 To encourage participants towards entrepreneurship and help to build a new
innovative business with a social dimension.

6. USP of program
 Domain mentoring by eminent Foodpreneurs
 Internships at the food start-ups and hotels
 Idea validation
 Leveraging the technology in best form
 Kick start of idea by the pilot program

7. Boot-camp Verticals
 Fast food
 Technology driven ideas
 Fine dining
 Novel/ theme ideas
 Banquet/ events
 Caterers
 Mess/ Tiffin Service


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8. Coverage:
Sr. Module Name Modules
No.
1  Entrepreneurship in food Foundation
domain
 Introduction to Industry Foundation
2  Sales Activity DO-It-Yourself
 Ideation Play Shop DO-It-Yourself
 Start-up Case Studies DO-It-Yourself
3  Accounts
 Operations/Resources
 Marketing/ Branding
 Sales
 Technology & tools Foundation
 Social Impact
 Customer
 Legal
 Ethics
 Challenges in running food
business
4  Visits + Internship DO-It-Yourself
5  Technology Usage Projects DO-It-Yourself
 Domain + Mentorship
DO-It-Yourself
 Pilot Implementation
 Digital Marketing Foundation

 Online Acton Course DO-It-Yourself

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6  Business Plan DO-It-Yourself

 Investment/Crowdfunding
Foundation

7  Endurance/ Risk Taking DO-It-Yourself

 Self-Awareness/enhancement Finishing
 Personal grooming/presentation

Hours Module breakdown

60hrs. Group Mentoring, Training
60 hrs. Online Course
30 Days Pilot Project& Internship
20 hrs. I am Me program on Self Enhancement

9. Mentors:
Best of the names from Hotel Industry has been picked up to guide budding
entrepreneurs during this eventful journey

 Mr. Manoj Bali (Radisson’s): Mr. Manoj Bali comes with a rich background of
around 3 decades in Hospitality. He graduated from Institute of Hotel
Management, Mumbai. They say, one is lucky if they get a chance to work in
Oberoi in Indian Hospitality, and Mr. Bali has been one of those few who have

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grown with The Brand Oberoi. Currently working as a general Manager at

Radisson Blu, Nagpur.

 Mr. MukulKulkarni (Breakfast Story):Mr.Mukulkulkarni is the owner of Breakfast

story the best place to get you a healthy breakfast with an ambience filled with
creativity. Mr. Mukul is an Architect by profession and Breakfast story was his
dream which he is living now.

 Mr. Ankit Agrawal (Panino):Ankit is a dynamic person with a new vision and
perspective towards food industry. He is the owner of Panino Foods Pvt. Ltd.
Panino is a sandwich specialty restaurant having 3 outlets in Nagpur, 2 in Surat, 1
in Ahmedabad and growing.

 Mr. AdityaNaniwadekar (Hibiscus):He is the owner of Hibiscus, Nagpur, Copper-

a casual dining and Madras Kitchen, Nagpur. He is also the owner of Aditya
Caterers which is a catering company since 1980. He has done his BA from
Institute of Hotel management, Aurangabad and diploma in hotel management
from Taj groups of hotel.

 Mr. Ashish Kamble (Centre point Hotel) *:Banquet Manager Centre point hotel

 Mr. Vishnu Manohar(Vishnujikirasoi) *:Vishnu Manohar of Manohar group is a

well known Executive Chef from Central India and has honors of having more than
1200 live shows all over India on cookery through which he has trained more than
1.5 Lacs ladies.He is a famous city lad, Bachelor of Fine Arts and working as
Executive Chef for the famous Manohar Group providing Professional catering
services for past 24 years.

 Mr. Nilesh Naidu(Salt n pepper): Nilesh is the owner of Salt n Pepper and has an
experience of 10+ years in food industry.

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 Mr. Prashant Virkhare: Prashant Virkhare is a faculty of food & Beverages at

Government Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology. He has 15
yrs. of experience in hotel management.

(& few proposed mentors from outside Nagpur ;*-Confirmation awaited)

10. Internship Organizations:

Participants will be provided to learn at some of the
most famous food joints/hotels to get the overall
knowledge in the domain.

 Breakfast story
 Panino
 Khichadiwala
 Radisson
 Hibiscus
 Centre Point
 Dominos
 Cane can
 Salt n Pepper
 Jog caterers

(& few proposed organizations from outside Nagpur)

Fees
Indian Residents- 44000/- INR

Foreign Candidates- 1299 USD

We strongly recommend participants to consider this fees as part of
their investment for their start-up Key objective of this program is to
bring out start-ups and mentor job creators but to ensure commitment
and seriousness of candidates during the program; Lemon has a fees
model to cover the basic operating expenses .

* Check for Scholarships options with LEMON Team

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11. Selection Criteria

The aspiring candidate has to go through 3 following stages:

1) Registration

2) Entrepreneurial acumen Test

3) Personal Interview/ Presentation in case of food related Idea.

(Note: The candidate will be enrolled provided they can devote his full time to the
workshop)

12. Lemon Overview:

Lemon Ideas is on a mission “Innovation by EveryONE” and is working towards
empowering talented individuals to convert their Ideas (Lemons) into innovation/start-
ups (Lemonade). We believe that you have that Lemony Idea which could be the next
million dollar idea. Ours is the only lemonade that has the cocktail of Talent &
Innovation. Our propriety models ‘Lemon Innovation Axes’ & ‘Ideation Triangle’ will
squeeze the bucketful of ideas from you.

Lemon Ideas offers various programs for mentorship to fulfill needs of aspiring
innovators and entrepreneurs. These programs are designed in a way where individual
uniqueness is the key driver for mentorship and coaching. The broad Implementation of
mentorship programs are as per Lemon Innovation Process TM and Lemon Idea Funnel
TM. The best part of the LEMON mentorship programs is that they are driven by O3
(one on One) coaching methodology where the outcome is guaranteed.

Lemon Mentors for you:

Deepak Menaria
Deepak is a passionate Creator, Executor and brings along multiple creations including
Software Company, Social organization, Various Initiatives, programs, movies and
process models. His avid love for experimentation and taking offbeat paths filled with
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‘crazy’ ideas has been a visible colour in his self –made professional journey. His rich
experience includes Managing Talent and People functions in IT industry. Before Lemon
ideas, he has co-founded ONE Foundation and Lambent Technologies (Now
GlobalLogic). He has mentored over 100 talented professionals over 15 years of
professional journey and is currently mentoring 10+ start-ups ideas. He is regularly
quoted in regional and national media publications on start-ups, innovation and
education.

Dr. Rajeev Roy

Rajeev Roy became an entrepreneur soon after completing his PGDM from IIM
Ahmedabad. He was an entrepreneur for nine years before he joined academics. His
ventures include food processing, agriculture and knowledge process outsourcing.
Currently the Chief Gardner at the Lemon School of Entrepreneurship (LSE), he taught
entrepreneurship for over nine years and was a full time faculty member at Xavier
Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB), IIM Raipur and Loyola University
Maryland.
He has mentored several entrepreneurs and is on the advisory board of National
Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). He has been an advisor or a consultant to several
governments and multi-lateral organizations on the development of entrepreneurship.

Mr. Vikas Rajput

Vikas was an entrepreneur for five years with three years of corporate experience. He
has mentored several entrepreneurs and has been an advisor or a consultant to several
institutes and multi-lateral organisations on the development of entrepreneurship some
of them being Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida, Institute of Management
Studies (IMS, Noida). He has been awarded Goldman Sachs – National Entrepreneurship
Network Certified Faculty Scholar. He has done a course ‘Entrepreneurship Educator
Course (EEC) from National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) in collaboration with IIM –
B and Stanford University’.

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Praveen Kanda
Praveen is a passionate technology developer with 15+ years of experience in mobile
software development. He has witnessed the evolution of mobile technology since last
decade and has been part of the transformation and changes in mobile space. He is VP
(Engineering) with XYMOB and has previously worked with leading product
development companies like Autodesk, Global Logic and Lambent. He is Pioneer in
developing location platforms for wireless operators in Asia and North America.

Sanjay Arora
Sanjay is CEO, Shells Advertising. Sanjay is popularly known as “Branding Guru”. Shells is
a highly professional, full service advertising agency with a proven track record of over
25 years in leveraging its strategic and creative abilities to build strong brands. Sanjay is
a specialist in Strategic Brand Communications, Creative Concept Development &
Writing for Campaigns, Brochures, e-Brochures, Presentations, Websites etc. He is been
faculty for Brand Management at IMT and at Department of Business Management with
more than over 13 years of teaching experience

Dr. Prabodh Yelne

Dr. Prabodh Yelne is a Director of Institute of Psycho Management Studies. He is a
Consultant Psychotherapist and is a founder President of Association of Counsellors and
Psychotherapists, Nagpur. He has worked as Consultant & Professional Counsellor for
Reserve Bank of India and many other organizations in central India. He was visiting
Faculty since 2000 to all reputed management colleges including Institute of
Management Technology (IMT).

Vivek Paliwal
Vivek is currently IT Operations Manager – Business Intelligence at GE Capital New York,
USA. Vivek is a computer science engineer currently working at GE Capital and has
around 15 years of experience in various industries. He worked as Datawarehouse
specialist at XL Capital Ltd. He was also associated with other major industries such as
Mascon Global Limited, ISC Software Consulting, XL Capital Ltd.
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Raj Bordia
An alumnus of Asian Institute of Management , Philippines with good experience in
Corporate Planning & Reporting, Business Proposals, Financial Statement & Analysis and
Financial Modelling. Raj was ASIA PACIFIC CHAMPION for global HULT PRIZE in 2013. He
has studied Engineering and Management as part of his education. He is currently
working as Associate at SADIG, Saudi Arabia.

Nitin Gujarathi
Nitin has over two decades of experience in guiding & managing start-ups / established
organizations in India and Asia Pacific region. Executed engagements in industry
domains such as Insurance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Services, ITeS / Business Process Outsourcing, IT Infrastructure, PC Manufacturing,
Media, Publishing, Consumer products & Retail.

Mr. Ranjit Dani

Mr. Ranjit Dani is founder director of 'Think'. A qualified chartered accountant, Ranjit is
amongst the first 10 successful Certified Financial Planners CM to qualify from challenge
status. He is most sought after speaker on the subject of financial planning at various
trade and professional bodies. He is widely quoted in various local & national
newspapers. He is on the board of Dr. Ambedkar Business School, Nagpur and visiting
faculty at many management colleges.
He is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TIE) Nagpur Chapter and is secretary
of Vidarbha Management Association (VMA). He is also a member of Vidarbha
Industries Association. He is also a member of PETA.

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