Kaushik Roy

Kaushik Roy, Founder & CEO of Sky Gate Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. – Biryani By Kilo, a product of Sky Gate Hospitality Pvt Ltd, BBK is the largest Cloud Kitchen Biryani & Kebab brand in the country.

Kaushik Roy a veteran of the hospitality industry. After completing his Hotel Management from IHM Bhopal in 1993, Kaushik started his career with Maurya Sheraton – Delhi. In a career span of over three decades, he has been associated with various brands right from Nirulas, Pizza Express, Mars Restaurants, Pizza Corner, Daily Bread subsidiary of Britannia and most recently Ammi’s Biryani in South and Dana Choga’s Kitchen (DCK) in North while being associated with SAIF Partners. He has launched over 200 restaurants prior to his entrepreneurial journey that started in 2015.

Under his leadership Pizza Corner grabbed a big pie of the Pizza market from 2007 to 2009. More recently, his operating asset Ammi’s Biryani was consecutively awarded the “ Best QSR in the South of India “ by the Indian Restaurant Congress for the year 2013 and 2014.

Kaushik has been a pioneer in the Industry, always trying out new concepts. In the year 1997 he was a part of the team that brought in thin crust pizza for the first time in India under the brand Pizza Express from UK. He is also instrumental for launching the first donut outlet in India under the brand Donut Baker in Bangalore and Cold Stone Ice cream outlet in Bangalore under the brand Cream & Fudge in the Year 2007.

During the various roles that he took up, from Operations Head to CEO, he realised the need to promote the glorious history of Indian food cooked the traditional way. It had been his dream to start something on these lines thus he hung is corporate boots and conceptualised the Biryani By Kilo to venture out on his own.

Biryani By Kilo with its humble beginning in 2015 from one delivery kitchen in Gurgaon now operates ~100 outlets in 45 cities in India with a 3000 employees team. Marking a major milestone in its growth trajectory, the brand’s parent company, Sky Gate Hospitality, was acquired by Devyani International Ltd (DIL)—the operator of KFC and Pizza Hut in India—in 2025 through a majority stake purchase.