Raghunandan, the son of a fruit vendor founded Natural Ice Creams

Raghunandan Srinivas Kamath the founder of the all-time-favourite Natural Ice Creams, comes from a tiny village called Mulki in Mangalore, Karnataka. Raghunandan’s father earned all of Rs 100 a month from leasing trees and selling fruit. Curry, coffee and jackfruit was all that Raghunandan’s mother could afford to feed her seven children. The children would routinely roam around bare-bodied. Raghunandan along with the rest of the family moved to Mumbai when he was 15-years-old to start work alongside his brother in an eatery. The family lived in a 12 by 12 foot room (kholi) in a chawl at Juhu Koliwada.

Raghunandan’s ice cream odyssey began about forty years ago with a simple question. “If ice cream can have fruit flavours, why can’t it have real fruits instead?” That thought led to Natural’s launch in 1984 in Mumbai with four staffers and 10 flavours. Today, all Natural parlours serve 150 flavours. And every weekend a new flavour’s introduced. Raghunandan goes to great lengths to maintain quality and picks only the best ingredients for his ice creams and buys from the most trusted suppliers.