Tiffin Indian Restaurant Opens Shop In Newtown Square

NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA – It's open now, but a grand opening is slated on Aug. 16 for the new Tiffin Indian restaurant in Newtown Square.

The eatery's Newtown Square outpost is its 10th location and will be serving up its most popular menu items based on ordering data compiled for over a decade.

Tiffin in Newtown Square's Springton Pointe Plaza will not have a microwave, fryer, traditional Tandoor ovens, or a freezer to give customers fresher meals.

Tiffin founder and CEO Munish Narula decided to disrupt his own formula with a change in the menu approach and kitchen set-up.

The 1600-square-foot, 36-seat, first Delaware County outpost of Tiffin will serve as the template for all future Tiffin franchises as the eatery moves forward in expanding and franchising.

"After opening the first Tiffin franchise in King of Prussia last summer I realized that we had to make some fundamental changes to grow this chain to its full potential," Munish said. "Fortunately our first franchisee was a longtime Tiffin manager who knew the cuisine and the very traditional cooking operations."

As Munish started talking to new franchisee prospects, he realized the original Tiffin format required a level of cultural familiarity with the food and the specialized preparation techniques that limited the pool of prospective franchisees and available skilled kitchen help.

"We needed to make Tiffin as easy to operate as any other food franchise operation that was selling burgers, fried chicken or tacos," Munish said.

To revise the formula, nearly a year of research and development followed.

The Tiffin team studied the data on hundreds of thousands of food orders placed over the last 11 years at their nine other locations and selectively culled a list of the best-selling dishes and trimmed the overall menu by eliminating dishes that didn't sell that well.

Tiffin also brought in a 20-year veteran of Indian food industry to lead the process along with other Tiffin and local chefs.

After conducting rigorous test and revisions with the Chefs of Rational, the manufacturer of Combi-Ovens, Tiffin started preparing all Tandoor and fried dishes according to pre-programmed settings in the combi-oven, with an equally efficient sauce and ingredients selection.

The result is better tasting, fresher dishes that can be produced more efficiently by fewer people with less storage and waste.

"This operation is now designed so that operators with little to no experience preparing Indian cuisine can come into one of our newly designed kitchens and get right to work turning out excellent Indian specialties," says Munish. "We even have a separate simple turntable style oven to produce naan and other bread specialties."

The new Tiffin is capable of replicating all the dishes very precisely and efficiently, which is at the heart of every successful chain restaurant concept.

Tiffin Indian is located at 202 S. Newtown Street Road.

Check out its menu here.

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