Type Fast food chain Founder TrilokNath Gupta Key people Rajendra Gupta | Founded 1948 | |
Products South Indian food, sweets | ||
Ratna Cafe is a South Indian fast food restaurant chain and F&B services firm, headquartered in Chennai, India. It operates restaurants and food courts in Tamil Nadu. Originally named Ratna Cafe, it was re-branded as Triplicane Ratna Cafe after the brand started expanding to various parts of Chennai City. Ratna Cafe is one of the longest standing restaurants in Chennai, popular for its sambar-idly and unique taste that has been maintained over the years.
History
Ratna Cafe or Triplicane Ratna Cafe was founded and established in 1948 by the Gupta family and particularly by Mr. Jaggilal Gupta, originally hailing from Mathura, UP. A news segment on CNBC said that "If South India invented the idli-sambar one could say that Ratna Cafe popularized it. The chain was started by a man from Mathura who ended up giving the city its most popular dish; idli-sambhar.
Rajendra Gupta, who is the current promoter of the group acquired it from his uncle Mr. TrilikNath Gupta in 2002, and continued developing the business by expanding outside its flagship store in Triplicane. The group is being currently headed by the Lokesh Gupta, who took over the reins of the restaurant business from Rajendra Gupta in 2012
In 2006, Ratna Cafe established itself into the field of Corporate and Institutional catering.