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# Akash Kapoor on Tal

## Headline

Founder & Chief Helper Curry Up Now & Mortar & Pestle Bar

## About

With over 14 years of experience in the food and beverage industry, I am passionate about creating authentic and innovative Indian cuisine that appeals to a wide audience\. I am the co\-founder and chief helper of Curry Up Now, a casual restaurant chain that serves Indian street food with a twist\. I am also the co\-owner and chief taster of spirits of Mortar & Pestle, a craft cocktail bar that showcases local and global flavors\. At Curry Up Now, I oversee the operations, marketing, and branding of the business, as well as the menu development and quality control\. I use our trucks as branding and marketing tools to drive catering and restaurant volume\. We are franchising worldwide\. With locations currently in multiple states and soon in the UK, our goal remains to be the biggest and baddest Indian casual chain in the world\.

## Location

Burlingame

## Work experience

Chief Helper at Curry Up Now\-Indian Street Food, Sep 2009 \- Present · 16 yrs 11 mos, 800 Airport Blvd \#411, Burlingame, Curry Up Now serves authentic & traditional Indian Food in an overly friendly and easily recognizable format in an effort to bring indian food to the mainstream\. We’ve lowered the barrier of entry that indian food has faced because of being labeled too exotic, spicy, oily\. OUR RESTAURANTS ARE SETUP AS FINE FAST CASUAL\. UPON ENTRY, A Customer sees a behemothic blackboard with Bollywood fonts as menu heads\. customers Place their order, take a number, help themselves to a drink & seat themselves\. The food gets delivered shortly thereafter\. We use our trucks as branding & marketing tools to drive catering and restaurant volume\.

Chief Taster of Spirits at Mortar & Pestle, Sep 2009 \- Present · 16 yrs 11 mos, 130 Main Street, San Mateo, CA, At Mortar & Pestle, an i'klektik distillerie, we lovingly engineer one drink at a time and make drinks come true\. The bar is showcasing craft cocktails, microbrews and California wines, as well as a small bite menu\. The bars are located at the rear of Curry Up Now space, with the entrance on Main Street and in our San Jose restaurant\. The owners, Akash and Rana Kapoor, conducted a nationwide search of bar consultants to help with the opening and settled on Bittercube, a Milwaukee and Minneapolis based firm that also makes its own craft bitters\. These are being used to help create an eclectic signature cocktail menu that includes an Indian inspired Rum Old Fashioned with a house made Garam Masala syrup, a Sri Lankan Coconut Arrack, and a namesake cocktail served in a mortar that is made with vintage bourbon and Demerara sugar and finished with lemongrass, rose syrup, mint and kaffir lime leaves\. There will be an array of exclusive house\-made tonics and the selection of beers is by renowned blogger David Jensen of Beer47\. The wine list has been put together by sommelier John Hoang, who will also be managing the bar\. The name Mortar & Pestle is derived from tools that Bittercube co\-founders Nick Kosevich and Ira Koplowitz often utilize\. They have trained nearly 100 bartenders over the last four years and the company has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy and Food & Wine, and on NPR\. Bittercube focuses on classic cocktail methodology and house\-made ingredients\.

COO at Settlement Corporation of America, Jan 2007 \- Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Debt Resolution Support Services\.

Controller at MotgagePointer, Jan 1998 \- May 2007 · 9 yrs 5 mos

## Education

B Com, Business Law, Finance, Economics, Osmania University

B'Com, st\. xavier's college, ranchi

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