# Koli home chefs scale up with cloud kitchens and big catering 2026-08-10T00:54:12+00:00 | Business & Economy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Mumbai's Koli home chefs are moving from seasonal seafood plazas to cloud kitchens and large-scale catering. The Daryavardi Producer Company Limited, a women-led fish producer organisation, opened its first cloud kitchen in Mahim Koliwada last week. It follows a 40 kg catering order in June for a birthday party at a senior citizens' resort in Wai, Satara, where 12 chefs cooked for 150 guests. The women are also undergoing formal training in product development and event management. At Google's BKC office, 30 Koli women completed a two-day crash course in budgeting and pitching last month. Independent Koli chefs are building parallel businesses, and the cooks say each large event teaches them how to improve, from customising fish slice thickness to preparing sol kadhi closer to service time. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Tags: catering, cloud kitchen, Koli cuisine, Mumbai, Women entrepreneurs Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/koli-home-chefs-scale-up-with-cloud-kitchens-and-big-catering/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/koli-home-chefs-scale-up-with-cloud-kitchens-and-big-catering/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.