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Basanta Tamang Lama shares insights on building a successful restaurant brand in Nepal, discussing challenges and strategies in the food industry.

Suggest Guests For Our Podcast: https://forms.gle/ytt6a9jxe8YwzsGD6 In this exclusive podcast, Basanta Tamang Lama, CEO of The Burger House & Crunchy Fried Chicken, shares the incredible journey behind building one of Nepal's most recognized restaurant brands. From opening the very first outlet to expanding across Nepal through franchise growth, Basanta Lama reveals the challenges, lessons, and strategies that helped Burger House become a household name. We discuss the origin of the Burger House name, the story behind the first outlet, staff and space management, stock management, menu planning, restaurant operations, franchise expansion, profitability, food quality control, and the realities of running a large restaurant chain in Nepal. Basanta also shares his perspective on Nepal's business market, competition in the food industry, coffee culture, Thakali restaurants, business scaling, and long-term brand building. The conversation dives deep into the hardest parts of entrepreneurship, financial management, maintaining food quality across multiple outlets, and how aspiring entrepreneurs can successfully enter the restaurant business. Basanta Tamang Lama also explains how…

People in this episode

Host: Sushant Pradhan

Guest: Basanta Tamang Lama

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• restaurant management
• franchise business
• business growth
• food industry
• Nepal's economy

Keywords

• franchise growth
• restaurant operations
• food quality control
• business scaling
• entrepreneurship lessons

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Burger House, Crunchy Fried Chicken

Places: Nepal

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