Chef Ajay Chopra, award-winning chef, founder of Zion Hospitality and the first MasterChef India judge, talks about the relationship between love and cooking, what makes a great chef, MasterChef India, along with a how to open your own restaurant 101 masterclass: type of restaurants, motivations, ambience & decor, sourcing ingredients, what 5-star restaurants get wrong, health & safety and the economics of running a restaurant.

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TIMELINE

0:00 Introduction

1:21 Food & Love

6:32 Lessons Learnt In The Kitchen From Mom

10:13 What Makes A Great Chef?

21:59 Restaurants 101: How To Decide Which Type of Restaurant I Should Open?

33:47 Restaurants 101: Motivations

40:02 Restaurants 101: Ambience & Decor

45:16 Restaurants 101: Economics

57:02 Restaurants 101: Sourcing Ingredients

1:02:15 5-Star Restaurants vs. Home Food

1:08:56 Restaurants 101: Health, Safety & Hygiene

1:17:46 Restaurants 101: Name, Location, Menu Engineering

1:22:52 MasterChef India: Good or Bad?

1:30:11 Lego Interpretation

1:33:29 Legacy & Meaning of Life

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