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The story
The restaurant started as Brahmin Coffee Club in Lalbagh Road area of Bangalore, India by Parampalli Yagnanarayana Maiya and his brothers in the year 1924. The restaurant moved to a new location in 1960 and was renamed as Mavalli Tiffin Rooms.
This restaurant was closed in the 1975 Indian emergency when the Food Control Act made it unprofitable to serve food items; It reopened in 1981.
To save the jobs during the time it was closed, MTR started selling spices and roasted flour mixes. That was the beginning of its entry into the convenience and instant food business that became MTR Foods.
From Wikipedia’s article on Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4