Kavi Thakrar co-founded Dishoom in 2010. Before Dishoom, Kavi worked at the IFC in Washington DC, and also at his family’s business Tilda Rice for several years. Starting with one café in Covent Garden, Dishoom now employs over 2,500 people across seven London sites, as well as Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow. Most recently, the team opened the all-day bar café, Permit Room, in Notting Hill, following openings in Brighton, Cambridge and Oxford. Kavi and the Dishoom team care enormously about creating beautiful and democratic shared spaces which pay homage to the food, history and culture of all Bombay. They also care deeply about creating a company which is an awesome place to work; the Sunday Times ranked Dishoom as one of the Top Ten ‘Best Places to Work’ in 2024.