Riyaaz Amlani from selling Shoes to building Restaurant Chains at Impresario & expanding SOCIAL

Welcome to Cyrus Says!
On this episode , we have a Parsi bawa in the house, Riyaaz Amlaani who’s an entrepreneur and restaurateur based in Mumbai, India. He is the CEO and MD of Impresario Handmade Restaurants and the former President of National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) from 2014 to 2017.
Catch interesting stories of what went behind building the famous restaurants chains like SOCIAL, Smoke House Deli, Salt Water Cafe, & managing , antiSOCIAL & Prithvi Cafe'.
Tune in to catch up his stories from early days, before the success of such brands & his love for different foods.
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[@WellbowledSaqqi]

Parsi-Jain offspring would definitely be Pain

[@cianthony1]

@@WellbowledSaqqi Ouch!!! 🤕 Not a jain not a Parsi.

[@sachinpagdhare2480]

Cyrus … Every podcast of yours takes me down to the memory lane of late 90’s , I still can’t get over your MTV talk shows . I vividly remember one of the episodes with Rahul Bose & how much fun we had back in the days watching all of that . Your Subtle humour with Kunal , Suresh , Cyrus Sahu , Maria , Nikhil Chinappa & none other than the Legend Jose . We used to often see u around SOBO lanes evening times with your little dog for a stroll . Keep it up bro it’s always fun watching your talk shows .. you manage to keep us in our college till date . Thank you & keep rocking .

[@satchsid24]

Great episode, Riyaaz is such a cool guest, need to bring him back for more stories.

[@neilmisquitta4825]

Parsis were searching for Germany!!! The story about the one with Farhad Wadia was pure nostalgia…oh Independence Rock at Rang Bhavan…

[@goredjay]

Remember going to “Berry’s”. And Gaylord and “Jazz”. Enjoyed the show. Best Wishes to the entrepreneur in all his future projects.

[@cianthony1]

Take that khane me kya hai. Best episode on food ever❤

[@akashkaushik9349]

this episode was so much fun.

[@khushnumbagwadia4302]

35:40 Café Mondegar at Colaba is such an iconic restaurant, open since years now and still great quality food, awesome ambiance, love their jukebox…also run by an Irani family.

[@please.chriss]

46:58 cyrus and his delivery 😂

[@mrinaljain39]

Oh man couldn't stop laughing. It was a fun watch :)

[@miteshagaria3987]

Bombay & Parsi food, nothing better ❤

[@vikramc10]

Fantastic!

[@MisterTikku]

Loved it jee 🙂❤

[@bawasimp]

loved the episode

[@loveyourlife_official]

Great episode ❤

[@RangerV8]

Get Maneka Doshi and discuss about financial situation

[@Auser8053]

Effortless comedians Rohit Sharmas of comedy

[@prasannacs5358]

How many wanted to read what is written in cyru's shirt but could not do it till end 👹 ?

[@AvishekBanerjeeRanchi]

how do I get on the discord server?

[@TheKomentor]

What is the secret of success of these Parsees? Are there poor Parsees too?

[@Aditya19012]

Its a phenomenon of history …Like the jewish people,parsis were persecuted in persia(erstwhile iran)and there was a mass exodus of parsis from iran..And the majority either went to gujarat (bharuch navsari and such places )and a big part also stays in Bombay (There are good amount in bangalore too) Some parts of pakistan also has Parsis if i am not wrong karachi has a good amount of successful rich influential parsis..British east india company gave parsis an opportunity to work and parsis being a small minority who is extremely smart hard working and dont spread their religion too much and is a close knit community helped them build good relations with east india company and they obviously made EIC richer and richer and so its mostly a direct relation to their exodus Its also a factor that they dont spread their religion similar to jewish people and so they as a community are very mindful of it so there is no brainwashing and stuff and they are just focused on building businesses or becoming the best lawyers All in all you can compare them to The jews of europe and USA There are poor parsis also but that number is not very high..parsi population in general is very very small Fun fact: Freddie mercury of the Queen was a Parsi and studied in panchgani

[@TheKomentor]

@@Aditya19012 That's a fantastic comparison, with the Jews - lots of similarities.

[@klsrealtorspune6915]

​@@Aditya19012 couldn't have more terrible narration of Parsi history 😅 Please don't compare something you have no possibly remote idea about. Read history first.

[@Aditya19012]

@@klsrealtorspune6915 oh what do you know that i dont ?Can you enlighten me sir

[@sohamrailkar4057]

Biryani and Ketchup 🤮 please put lifetime ban on that customer Riyaaz. In btw love the show team keep up the great work

[@please.chriss]

just back from social goregoan, had a feast eating the OG signature menu 🤍

[@795lkb]

cfbr

[@Anupamagoel]

One point i dont get ......everyone is half catholic half parsi, half muslim half parsi...but when it comes to a hindu why do u dilute it by saying only the states name...you could have said half maharashtrian hindu and half parsi.. So in a nutshell.....you are diliting ones hindu identity and on the other hand you are showing that a parso or a catholic or a muslim are just there because of theor religious identity and their state or land doesnt give any input to their identity

[@dailyhacks4634]

If you ate dosa daily and you had biryani once a year you would remeber it more . Its the same isnt it ? Its just a reference to a trait and a laugh about the diversity in india noone said what you are implying except you.

[@Anupamagoel]

@@dailyhacks4634 oh really...then you really need to read the actual newspapers or at least the news articles on websites and stay off these comedy ones dear

[@dailyhacks4634]

@@Anupamagoel marega sir pe hagegi ghar pe haan ! . You watching fake news is liye malayi maar ke news meiin andhvishwas ho Raha hain.