"Bharat Restaurant was established in the year 1938 by Sri Mool Narayan Tandon as an exclusively vegetarian Restaurant and, started catering operations in the year 1946. It was the official caterer for a number of companies which were thriving in Kanpur at that time, since it was known as “Manchester of Indiaâ€.
The management gives special regards or thanks to the J.K. Organisation, which was ably led by Sir Padampat Singhania, in whose time we were amongst the top caterers in India. There were only 3 caterers, namely Sona Rupa, Delhi, Greens, Amritsar and Bharat Restaurant, Kanpur. Subsequently both have closed down, a number of years back. A special feature of those time used to be “sit down tea-party†arrangements for 2000 to 5000 persons at a time, after independence the reins were slowly handed over to the next generation, who were the sons of perpetrator of the firm, “Late Sri Yadav Nath Tandon, the elder brother of Mullu Babu.
From 60s to 80s this organization was ably led by four brother Ramesh Chandra Tandon, Kailash Chandra Tandon, Suresh Chandra Tandon and Dinesh Chandra Tandon.
During this period the firm had good fortune of serving almost all the dignitaries of the era.
Starting from sarvapalli Radha Krishnan, G.B. Pant, Morarji Desai, Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, Padit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi etc. after Independence, Bharat Restaurant situated at Meston Road, Kanpur was the hotbed of politics in Uttar Pradesh as well as India. All the major politicians and major personalities right from the Ram Manohar Lohia to the present day Sri Prakash Jaiswal visit the place regularly. In the 80s a new generation entered this family and decided that the catering arm of this firm should be developed separately, hence in the year 1994 Bharat Restaurant was constituted as a company with its Directors Mr. Ramesh Chandra Tandon, Mr. Kailash Chandra Tandon, Mr. Rakesh Tandon, Mr. Sanjeev Tandon and Mr.Dinesh Chandra Tandon....
