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Annapoorna Gowrishankar

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Restaurant chain in Tamil Nadu, India

Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar is a vegetarian restaurant chain based out of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. The Annapoorna chain was started in the early 1960s by K. Dhamodarasamy Naidu as a catering unit in Kennedy movie theater in R. S. Puram, Coimbatore. Later a coffee house was set up and run by Naidu and his three brothers K. Rangaswamy Naidu, K. Ramaswamy Naidu and K. Lakshmanan.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar is a vegetarian restaurant chain based out of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India.2

Timeline

  1. 1960Founded Founded1

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