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Story of Khan's Kitchen

Khan’s Kitchen Limited (KKL) is a unique project that will solve the food problem of the people. It will be a safe food service center, which will ensure the delicious, healthy, sustainable and best quality nutritious meals. Job holders and other people who have to take their meal especially at lunch time don’t have to worry about their lunch any more. They can fully rely on our company us about their matter of health and hygiene, as we will prepare food in a world class kitchen. So there is a potential market for catering service as it will ease the time of the consumers especially office going people and will serve good quality food to them with free delivery service at the door. From this view, KKL decided to start the business as this business has not yet been explored that much and there are a huge number of consumers in this market. That’s why KKL has been found this project as a potential sector to explore this market.

Khan Kitchen was launched in 2017 with the ambitious idea of becoming the biggest name in lunch delivery to office-goers around Dhaka.

Afroza Begum, its founder and managing director, was keenly aware of the struggles of office goers who had to settle for either substandard food or rich and expensive food, during their lunch hours. She commissioned a market research and survey and discovered five to six million people ate their lunches at restaurants, fast food shops and from home-food suppliers in the capital every day. 

Today, Khan’s Kitchen is providing lunchboxes to 5,000 people at Tk120. It is operated by 150 employees. Also we have capacity of delivery 1,00,000 peoples food per day.

Instead of providing lunch boxes, they launched buffet services at different office canteens. After cooking the food, they carry it in buffet trays and set them up in the canteens. 

In addition, it has expanded into delivering for special events. 

“It looked like my business had sunk but it actually hadn’t. I was earlier covering a huge number of retail customers over a longer distance. So, I needed more manpower and financial support to run that operation

Khan’s Kitchen still has the capability to cook food for 1,00,000 people per day. However, they have not had to deliver for more than 50,000 people a day till date. 

 “I intend to do business, but after providing healthy and good food. When it was not working, I changed the strategy – and it proved effective,” 

From the consumer’s end, all these efforts have been met with due appreciation. Rahel Hasan, a senior executive at SMC group, said “In terms of quality and taste, the lunch from Khan’s Kitchen outranks other food catering services in Dhaka. On top of that, they listen to our feedback and change the menu accordingly.”

The operations 

Khan’s Kitchen stands on a massive property, which includes a four-bigha land is reserved for the infrastructure, while the rest of the land is set aside for its future farm.

Although the kitchen purchases fresh produce like vegetables, fish, and meat from fixed vendors, they plan to start producing these in their farm to maintain the highest quality. The preparation for cooking starts every evening. From prepping to washing, to marinating – all these are done by automated machinery to avoid human touch. After the preparation is done, the chefs’ work begins.

Before entering the kitchen, it is a must for all employees to take an air-shower. The kitchen has epoxy flooring to keep it germ-free. Even after that, the executive chef strictly overviews the sous-chefs and other workers, and instruct them on food safety and recipes. The kitchen, machinery, and utensils are cleaned daily. They frequently consult with professional nutritionists and get the food tested.