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Pooja Dhingra

Founder and CEO, Le15 Patisserie · 1 appearance on the record.

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Trained at Le Cordon Bleu Paris, Pooja Dhingra pioneered Parisian-style pastry and popularized macarons in India through her bakery brand, Le15 Patisserie. She has authored multiple cookbooks and served as a judge on MasterChef India.

7statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 3.86/5average certainty → 1.43/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Pooja argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Dhingra: 50% to 60% of Hospitality Graduates Leave the Industry
“The interesting statistic is that about. 50 to 60 people that study, go to hospitality school, don't end up in the industry. They end up doing different jobs.”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 6:12 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Pooja Dhingra on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Pooja Dhingra said on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Dhingra: 50% to 60% of Hospitality Graduates Leave the Industry
“The interesting statistic is that about. 50 to 60 people that study, go to hospitality school, don't end up in the industry. They end up doing different jobs.”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 6:12 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Dhingra: Founder-Driven Authentic Content Outperforms Agency-Directed Marketing Narrative
“No, I just feel that when you, I feel when you're authentic about your story and you do it yourself, it's a lot, it hits a lot deeper than if someone else is creating it for you. Even if some agency is building that content for you, I think it should be driven…”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 1:39:38 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dhingra: Colaba Cafe Sales Actually Grew After Star Head Chef Departed
“So actually when I had the Colaba cafe, I had a friend of mine who was Colombian and came to work as the head chef. And a lot of it was driven by him. You know, the place became about him and a lot of the people that came, came for him. And then when he left, …”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 3:01:37 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Dhingra: Macarons Generate 50% of Total Revenue for Le15 Patisserie
“50% of our revenue comes from macaroons.”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 10:56 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dhingra: An Accountant Stole a Significant Amount of Money From Me
“And I had like an accountant who stole a lot of money from me, made me really, like it put me through quite a bit.”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 17:52 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Dhingra: Le15 Patisserie Operates on an 18% to 20% Profit Margin
“What margins do you operate on? 18, 20%.”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 2:15:33 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Dhingra: Le15 Uses Cloud Kitchens to Test Demand Before Opening Stores
“What we've been doing recently is actually using the cloud kitchen model to kind of understand a neighborhood. So for example, we started a cloud kitchen in Juhu for six months and we saw that that was really successful and we said, okay, this market is succes…”
Pooja Dhingra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 2:31:26 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath

The other half of the tape: Pooja Dhingra's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Pooja Dhingra, by other people (1)

Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Kalra: Pooja Dhingra's Le15 Bakery Operates at an 18% COGS
“No wonder your cogs are 18%.”
Zorawar Kalra Oct 28, 2023 ▶ 2:39:54 Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlan Oct 28, 2023 23m
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