Despite finding success while running his own Mac’s Convenience Store and subsequently launching his own convenience store chain along with his brother in Saskatchewan in the 80s, Ravinder Narula and his family decided to move to BC in order to reconnect with their South Asian roots.

Upon his arrival in Vancouver in 1991, Ravinder realized that there was a shortage of South Asian produce and grocery available within a province that was home to a large South Asian community. He concluded that this inevitably meant that just like him, a whole generation of immigrants were missing the tastes of the traditional cuisines that they enjoyed while growing up in India.

With the intention of filling this void within the South Asian grocery market, Ravinder began his mission by purchasing a small grocery s