About

Our Management Team

Monish Gujral, Managing Director of the Moti Mahal Tandoori Trail chain of restaurants

Monish Gujral graduated from Delhi University, majoring in Business studies. He then studied Hotel Management at Pusa Institute at Delhi, before sweating it out in the kitchen of world famous Moti Mahal restaurant to understand the first hand concept of inventory management and learning recipes directly from his grandfather. He is the grandson of legendary Kundan Lal Gujral; the person who introduced Tandoori cuisine to the world by inventing the Famous Tandoori chicken and placing India on the world culinary map. Monish is also a columnist with India’s number one news paper “The Hindustan Times” and also writes a food column on food trends of India and recipes in “The Hindu.” He is also actively involved in helping and training students in Institute of Hotel Management, Catering & Nutrition, Pusa, and Delhi in Tandoori and Mughlai culinary. Monish has also instituted an annual trophy for the best student chef of the Institute of Hotel Management Pusa, Delhi, in the memory of his late grandfather.

To commemorate Kundan Lal’s Tandoori trail from Peshawar to Delhi, Monish has launched the new look Moti Mahal restaurants called the Tandoori Trail restaurants and planned a global chain of such eateries.

Monish has also authored a book “Moti Mahal’s Tandoori Trail”, which besides being a treasure house of recipes has a unique photographs of various dignitaries and celebrities such a Kennedy’s, Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Shah of Iran among others which make this book a truly collector’s item. The book was released by Arun Jaitley, the then Law & Justice and Commerce Minister on the 18th of April 2004. The book was also released in London at the Nehru Center on the 3rd of June 2005 by the Minister for Culture and Director of Nehru Center Mr. Pawan Kumar Verma.

Besides this, Monish Gujral has directed and conceived “Moti Mahal Qawalli Trail” Music with T-series collaboration, launched by the Minister for Tourism Mrs. Renuka Chowdhari. Qawalli which is the hall mark of Indian culture was always patronized by Moti Mahal for live entertainment in the restaurant.

Sachin Sarwal- Director-operations and accounts

A graduate from Delhi University in business studies. A first hand in restaurant operations and effectively managing them. A ten year experience in running a chain of restaurants and is third generation from the family of restaurateurs.

Sonal Gujral – Head of Public relations and marketing

A post graduate with business studies background .She has been instrumental in building great communication with the press and our franchisees.

Shilpa Sarwal – Creative Head

She has a design diploma from Pearl academy. She is a creative team leader for developing and designing various advertisements and marketing campaigns.

Suresh Kumar Mehra – C.F.M (Corporate franchise manager)
With more than 15 years experience in hospitality industry, he heads the franchise corporate team of personnel and is responsible for effective and smooth operations of our franchised outlets.

Pradeep Bhandari – Assistant corporate franchise manager
With more than ten years of experience in managing Motimahal restaurants, he is well versed with all the operational and front desk management of the restaurant. He with his team assists the franchisees to start the outlet effectively taking care of stock management, appointing the local vendors, food costing, putting all the procedures in place for the franchisee to operate the outlet effectively.

Corporate Chef s- Devender Singh  Rawat and Mahender

Assistant corporate chefs

– Tandoor Section

  • Jeevan
  • Vishnu Sapkota
  • Mahipal singh
  • Kishan Bhandari

– Curry section

  • Parmanand
  • Mahender
  • Mohan
  • Sham bahadur

Zonal Managers

A team of corporate personnel, working tirelessly to assist the franchisees in various aspects of restaurant management:

  • Kanchan Singh
  • HSingh
  • R. Tilak

F&B Service Training Department

  • Bhupinder singh
  • Mandal
  • Vijay Singh
  • Sham Lal

Accounts Department

  • S Kapoor
  • Surender
  • Manoj
  • Surbhi

Chartered accountants
Sudheer Talwar and Associates

Legal

Sandeep Sethi and associates

Rajesh Yadav and Associates
Chand and Sethi advocates