On Sagar Daryani's bucket list: A Wow! Momo in Times Square, building cancer hospitals

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On Sagar Daryani's bucket list: A Wow! Momo in Times Square, building cancer hospitals

Taking Wow! Momo Foods to the global stage has always been the goal for co-founder and CEO Sagar Daryani who often imagines setting up a store in Times Square one day.

“If a Domino’s and a KFC can come from abroad to India, then it is our aspiration to be an Indian brand going abroad,” he told ET Panache on the side-lines of a recent awards event. “Today I can visualize a Wow! Momo in Times Square, say 10 years from now.”

Recently Daryani moved one step closer to his New York dream with Tiger Global Management investing Rs. 130 crore in Wow! Momo Foods. The company, which owns and operates Wow! Momo and Wow! China, currently has 282 outlets of Wow! Momo and 11 outlets of Wow! China across 15 cities.

Dream It, Achieve It
Daryani, who is a big believer in visualising what you want, has been encouraging his team for years to think global. “In everything you do, you have to give your team that sense that we have to go global.”

On Sagar Daryani's bucket list: A Wow! Momo in Times Square, building cancer hospitals

To help with this, Daryani often borrows a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

“I have this thing where I keep telling my team whenever we’re stressed out that ‘Friends, Romans and country men, we have to take Wow! Momo from India to Rome. So let’s make it bigger, bigger and bigger.’”

Does it work? “It just lightens the mood.”

On the Bucket List
Besides New York, what’s on Daryani’s bucket list?

“If I had to think a future apart from Wow! Momo, maybe 20 or 30 years from now, one thing I’d want to do is build cancer hospitals. We’re (currently) working on this concept where every plate of momos that we sell, you contribute Rs. 1 to building cancer hospitals. So I think by the time I’m sixty I should be able to achieve that.”

Source:- https://retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/food-entertainment/food-services/on-sagar-daryanis-bucket-list-a-wow-momo-in-times-square-building-cancer-hospitals/71219658

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