Poongodi Soundarrajan | Entrepreneur
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things, believes Poongodi Soundarrajan, who began his journey in Adelaide in 2007.
It’s been a long tough road from process worker in the packaging industry to establishing a restaurant in 2010. “The first was a way to get by, the second runs in my blood,” says Poongodi, who comes from a family that has been in the restaurant business for three generations.
Poongodi today runs an Indian restaurant with 270 seating capacity, growing in size from one employee in 2010 to nine in 2018. “With Chennai Sweets Pty Ltd, we have catered to more than 500 events, thus providing South Australians easy access to food industry,” says Poongodi.
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