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Samam Foods · Chennai

Honest food, for everyone.

Samam Foods brings authentic, affordable food to more people, cooked with genuine, traditional ingredients. We do it through two brands: A Madras Biriyani, and Tastetosphere, the food courts we run for corporates, IT parks, malls and colleges.

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Traditional ingredientsAffordable for allProfits that support education
Chicken biriyani in a copper kadai, with salan and onion raita
Sunlit seating in a food court

We rise by lifting others.

A Madras BiriyaniSlow-cooked, the Madras way
Our brands

Two brands. One belief.

Good food shouldn’t be a luxury. Each Samam brand serves it honestly, in its own way.

A Madras Biriyani

Madras biriyani, the honest way.

Slow-cooked with hand-picked spices, in pure sunflower oil, with nothing artificial added. A recipe we refused to stop working on until it was right.

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Tastetosphere
Tastetosphere

Food courts, run better.

Many brands under one roof, run by one team. People order from their phone, vendors cook from a live queue, and the whole court is managed from one control centre.

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Biriyani in a clay pot, with marigolds and kebabs
A Madras Biriyani

Twenty-four tries to get it right.

Our signature biriyani took 24 rounds of trial and error before we were happy to serve it. It’s cooked the slow Madras way, layered with hand-picked spices, so every plate tastes the way biriyani should.

What goes in

  • Hand-picked spices
  • Pure refined sunflower oil
  • Slow cooking, the Madras way
  • Genuine, traditional ingredients

What never does

  • Artificial flavours
  • Added colours
  • MSG
  • Palm oil or reused oil
  • Hidden ingredients

Nothing to hide, just good biriyani.

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Available at Tastetosphere food courts.

Tastetosphere, a multibrand diner
Tastetosphere

A food court, built around your people.

Tastetosphere is the food court brand Samam runs for corporates, IT parks, malls and colleges. We bring a curated mix of counters, and the technology to run them: ordering from any phone with nothing to download, a live order queue for every vendor, and one control centre for sales, settlements and the landlord’s monthly statement.

For your peopleEvery counter in one menu. Pay by UPI, card, company credit or Pluxee, and collect with a token, not a queue.
For vendorsOrders print straight to the kitchen, with a clear settlement statement every cycle.
For youOne team to deal with, and the whole court in one place.
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A cook finishing a plate in a warm kitchen
Our story · Our kitchens

Good food shouldn’t be a luxury.

Samam Foods began as an initiative to build a niche chain of restaurants serving authentic food at prices everyone can afford, made with genuine, traditional ingredients. We cook in our own cloud kitchens, built for consistency from the first plate to the thousandth.

Hygienic by designClean, purpose-built kitchens.
Standardised recipesEvery dish made the same way, every time.
Strict quality checksAt every stage, before anything leaves the kitchen.

Our vision

A thriving network of restaurants that empowers restaurateurs and encourages entrepreneurship, with affordability and social responsibility at its heart.

Our mission

To change the food industry for the better, through new ideas that challenge the way things have always been done.

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Giving back

We rise by lifting others.

Samam was started with a simple belief: a business that feeds people should also lift them up. A part of our profits goes towards the education of underprivileged children, so they can grow up independent, capable and free to choose their own future.

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

Earning in the right way, to serve in a righteous way
Careers · SEEED

Learn the food business from the inside.

SEEED is our programme for people who want to build a career in food. You learn by working on real operations alongside our team, and leave with experience, a certificate and the support to take your next step.

SamamEducationEmployment &EntrepreneurshipDevelopment
01

Real experience

Work on live operations, including supply management, a strong start for freshers.

02

A review certificate

Recognition of what you’ve learned and done, when you complete the programme.

03

Your next step

Placement support through our tie-ups, including opportunities to work overseas.

04

Your own venture

A platform and guidance if you want to start a food business of your own.

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Grow with Samam.

Whether you have space for a Tastetosphere food court or want to bring A Madras Biriyani to a new location, we’d like to hear from you. Space needs depend on the model, and the initial investment is kept reasonable.

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VisitOld #21, New #25 J.N. Salai, Ekkattuthangal, Chennai 600032
HoursMon–Sat, 10 am–6 pm
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