A group of seven women entrepreneurs joined hands and formed a group Tasya, which aims to help several women, who aspire to become entrepreneurs. After several rounds of meetings, they decided to provide a platform to budding women entrepreneurs and thus was born their debut venture christened ‘Ms. Chef’.

The aim of Ms. Chef is to connect the home-based chefs to customers who wish to eat home cooked lunch. In the first intake, Tasya has enrolled 200 Coimbatore-based women and their operations will kick-start very soon in the city. This means you can expect a home-cooked meal delivered at your doorstep.

Currently, under the Ms. Chef banner orders for lunch will be catered to. However, depending on the response and feedback that the group receives from customers, they will consider taking orders for breakfast and dinner too.

“Tasya aims to empower about a crore women by 2020. We are working on various verticals in order to achieve this target. Our debut venture in this direction is Ms. Chef.” Devika Ramesh, one of the founders of Tasya, says.

Today, an orientation was organised for the budding home chefs who wish to start a home based business of cooking and selling food. At the session, turn by turn, the founders of Tasya shared their experience as entrepreneurs.

“One of the qualities required to be a successful entrepreneur is ego. Believe it or not this is the truth. The dictionary meaning for ego is self-importance. As an entrepreneur, it is important to give yourself and your business importance as we live in an era that works on the rule survival of the fittest,” Dr. Shifa Arshad said. Her informal motivational address was an eye-opener for several homemakers who would soon become home entrepreneurs, courtesy Tasya.

Each of the women who wished to cook and sell food from their home kitchen were asked to fill in a form that had details like what dish was their speciality and to list five such dishes that were a part of a full course meal.

In the following days, the founders of Tasya will visit the home kitchens of the homemakers to inspect the standards of hygiene among other factors. The founder of Tasya will also taste the speciality listed by the home cooks and once things are in place, the former will start sourcing orders and clients for the latter. We are told that very soon this process will begin.

Tasya will take no fee as commission or service charge. The founders have invested a part of their business profits in this venture. All for empowering women !