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Success Story: This Indian used to wash utensils in America for 5 dollars, the owner of the same hotel!
admin | October 7, 2025 7:22 PM CST

Success Story: This Indian used to wash utensils in America for 5 dollars, the owner of the same hotel!

Amol Kohli of Indian origin

When luck and hard work support, the journey from floor to hail becomes a reality. One such surprising story is of Amol Kohli of Indian origin, who has shocked the world by becoming the owner of the same after two decades in the restaurant in the US. To meet his needs at the age of 15, the boy who used to clean the table in a restaurant, today he owns a huge range of 250 restaurants.

Washed plates for pocket expenses

This story starts from the year 2003. Amol Kohli was then an ordinary student of high school and worked in part-time in a popular Restaurant 'Friendlys' in America. His purpose was to take out his studies and small expenses. At that time, he used to get just 5 dollars (about 400 rupees) to work per hour. The work was also not fixed. Sometimes they would have to clean the customers' tables, sometimes the kitchen would have been dhoni in the kitchen. Whatever work the manager assigned, Amol used to fulfill it with full dedication. He never considered any work as small and this became the first step of his success.

Travel from waiter to owner

Two decades, ie twenty years, has passed and today time has taken such a turn that 37 -year -old Amol Kohli has become the owner of the same 'Friendlies' restaurant chain. His investment company has not only acquired Friendlies, but has also bought its parent company 'BRICS Holdings' and six other restaurants under it. However, the official information of how much this deal has been done has not been revealed, but it is believed that Amol's company has paid a huge amount of crores of rupees for this.

Learn business tricks while working in restaurant

Amol's success is not an overnight success, but there is a desire for his years of hard work and learning behind it. While working in Friends, he not only washed the plates, but also saw and understood every small and big aspect of business very closely. He earned a degree in finance and marketing from Draxel University, but his real training took place on the floor of the same restaurant. Along with studies, he assimilated every close business, such as how business insurance works, what is the cost of hiring employees and how to manage food expenses. This ground experience became his biggest strength.

Today a huge empire of 250 restaurants

Through his investment company, Amol has bought all 31 existing restaurants of Friends. Apart from this, his procurement has now also included popular brands like clean juice, Orange Leaf, Red Mango, Smoothi ​​Factory Plus Kitchen, Super Salad and Hambal Donut. In this way, Amol Kohli has become the owner of about 250 restaurants in the US today.


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