Rashika is a chef and entrepreneur. She is the owner of Shubh Rasoi, a cloud based kitchen delivering tasty and quality food at affordable prices.

Rashika started her journey as an entrepreneur during the Covid-19 pandemic. When all the restaurants and shops were shut down because of the Covid restrictions, she took it as an opportunity to help people get good quality food and also to hone her culinary skills.

Rashika was just four years old when she made her first dish. She loves to eat food as much as she loves cooking. When she grew up to a point in life where she had to choose her career, her parents told her to study Law and become an IAS officer but Rashika had other plans in mind. She quit her arts college in less than a week and applied for a culinary course in IHM Aurangabad without informing her parents about it. Thankfully, both her parents were fine with her decision and she started her career in the culinary arts.

During the pandemic, only Domino’s Pizza was delivering in Noida and rest all the restaurants and cafes were shut down. Taking this as an opportunity, she started her own food delivery startup. She started delivering food at low prices and focused on quality and taste. Soon, her startup succeeded and people started loving her food. She started getting a lot of orders from all over the area. She was immensely supported by her friends and family. Her blogger friends also helped her promote Shubh Rasoi on social media. Fast forward today, and Rashika is preparing to open up multiple outlets in and around Noida to be able to reach a larger customer base.

Rashika’s inspiration in life has been her parents. She says her mother used to dream about her becoming a chef and she did everything to make that dream come true. Her father taught her all her decision making skills and always stood by her side through thick and thin. She says her sister has been her biggest support system and she never let her down. Rashika’s role models in life are chef Vikas Khanna and her executive chef that she works under. For her, Vikas Khanna is the best chef in the world. She feels she still has a lot to learn but, she admires her executive chef a lot because even after being at a senior position, he is like a friend to Rashika and she gets to learn a lot from him every single day.

Rashika did her primary schooling from Holy Child Sr. Sec. School in Delhi. In her eighth standard her father was transferred to Jabalpur where she stayed for two years and had to change her school. She then again shifted to Nagpur and completed the rest of her secondary studies there. She feels her schooling had a major impact on her growth as an entrepreneur as well as her career. She used to be very notorious but her good education helped her understand her responsibilities and the value of sincerity. Upon joining IHM Aurangabad, Rashika sometimes used to feel the overshadowing male dominant industry factor but she never gave up and today, she is a successful entrepreneur cum chef.

Along with her education, Rashika feels her experience was also very useful. She feels that in today’s modern culinary industry, a chef should not just know how to cook well but also the management of things. With her good management skills that she learned from her experience working with big hotel groups in the industry like Taj, LemonTree, Marriott and Imperfecto, where she currently works as a chef, she gained a lot of knowledge about how things work.

For Rashika, success is not about making huge amounts of money, but as a chef it is to be able to feed people. Her food was ordered by Covid patients and Covid wards in the hospitals during the pandemic and what made her happy the most was the appreciation and blessings she used to get from patients who recovered well after eating meals prepared by her daily. Achievement for her was to be featured in local magazines and articles. Shubh Rasoi was widely acknowledged and appreciated for the work it did during the pandemic by providing low cost meals to the people in need.

For younger generations who want to join the food industry, Rashika would like to advise them to never give up. She thinks her profession as a chef is one of the difficult ones and people generally leave frustrated. She would like to advise the youngsters to work with utmost dedication and never give up on their dreams. They should ignore if others are trying to pull them down and become stubborn on their decisions in life.

In her free time, Rashika loves to write poems and articles. She also enjoyed the pandemic period as she got a lot of time to spend with her friends and family.

On a concluding note, Rashika says one should always face the problems in their life head on because problems are there just to make you stronger. The one who is able and confident enough can do wonders, even in a tough situation.