Mother India

What Mother India does

Mother India is a privately held, single-location Indian restaurant operating from 136 Tettenhall Road in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. The business serves local consumers and private event hosts with à la carte dining, wine, desserts, and a seasonal Christmas menu, alongside a dedicated private dining service accommodating up to 35 guests and full-restaurant hire for up to 80 guests with tailor-made celebration packages for groups of 12 or more. Its name derives from 'Bharat Mata' and the menu spans traditional Maharaja-kitchen recipes to staple home classics prepared with aromatic herbs and spices.

The restaurant generates revenue through two primary streams: transaction-based food and beverage sales across its four menu collections served in the dining room, and one-off private dining and celebration packages booked via phone. Pricing is not publicly disclosed on the website; customers download PDF menus and call to reserve. Distribution is exclusively through the physical restaurant and phone reservations, with marketing limited to the company website, a Facebook page, and an Instagram account.

Mother India employs 46 staff and operates six evenings per week (Tuesday–Saturday 5pm–11pm, Sunday 4pm–11pm, closed Monday). There is no evidence of external investment, subsidiaries, parent company, M&A activity, technology platform, or AI capability; the business is independently operated as a traditional hospitality establishment with no disclosed digital ordering, delivery, or loyalty infrastructure.

Name

Mother India

Legal name

Mother India

Website

https://mother-india.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mother India is a single-location Indian restaurant in Wolverhampton, UK, serving local diners and private event hosts with à la carte, wine, dessert, and Christmas menus alongside private dining for up to 80 guests.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Indian Restaurant

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Family-Style Restaurants (THAFACAC)

Keywords

• Indian restaurant dining
• Private dining events
• Curry house services
• Wine and dessert menu
• Festive season menus

Headquarters

HQ city

Wolverhampton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Restaurant dining: Revenue generated from food and beverage sales through à la carte menu, dessert menu, and wine menu offerings served in the restaurant's dining area.
2. Private dining and events: Revenue from private dining events and celebration packages, including tailor-made menu packages for groups of 12 or more.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Mother India is a Wolverhampton-based Indian restaurant serving traditional Indian cuisine through a la carte dining, dedicated wine, dessert, and seasonal Christmas menus. The restaurant also offers private dining and event hosting services for celebrations and group occasions.

Product overview

Mother India is a single-location Indian restaurant in Wolverhampton, UK offering a unified dining experience. The core offerings consist of four downloadable menu collections (A la Carte Menu, Wine Menu, Dessert Menu, and Christmas Menu) served at the restaurant, plus a Private Dining & Events service with tailor-made celebration packages for groups of 12 or more. The restaurant can host up to 80 diners total, with a dedicated private dining area for up to 35 guests.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• A la Carte Menu

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Pizza Express: Pizza Express is a long-established UK casual dining chain with broad high-street coverage, online booking, and loyalty programs. It is a broader incumbent comparable on full-service casual dining model and represents the scale and digital infrastructure that independent operators like Mother India face as competitive context.
• Wagamama: Wagamama is a UK-based Asian casual dining chain with extensive delivery and digital ordering infrastructure. It is a broader incumbent comparable on full-service Asian casual dining model and demonstrates the digital ordering / delivery channels Mother India currently lacks.
• Wahaca: Wahaca is a UK chain serving Mexican-inspired casual dining across multiple sites. It is a broader incumbent in the ethnic casual dining category — comparable business model (multi-site casual ethnic full-service) but a different cuisine — relevant for benchmarking operational scale and digital adoption.
• Nando's: Nando's is a UK high-street chain specializing in peri-peri chicken in a casual full-service format. It is a broader incumbent for benchmarking casual UK dining operations at scale, including private events and loyalty programs, even though it is not an Indian cuisine operator.
• Gymkhana: Gymkhana is a Michelin-starred Indian fine-dining restaurant in Mayfair, London. It is a broader incumbent in UK Indian dining — same cuisine category and occasion-driven positioning, but operating at a significantly higher price point and prestige tier than Mother India.

Direct peers

• Dishoom: Dishoom is a UK Indian restaurant chain operating multiple full-service sites focused on Bombay cafe-style cuisine. Directly comparable to Mother India as a full-service Indian dining concept serving a similar customer use case (dining + private events), with a comparable narrative of authenticity and tradition.
• Roti Chai: Roti Chai is a London full-service Indian restaurant emphasizing regional Indian recipes and traditional cooking techniques. Directly comparable to Mother India's positioning around authentic, tradition-rooted Indian cuisine served in a contemporary full-service setting.
• Cinnamon Kitchen: Cinnamon Kitchen is a London-based full-service Indian restaurant with an adjacent cocktail and wine program and private dining facilities. Comparable to Mother India in offering a full à la carte, wine list, and private events within an upscale Indian dining format.
• Mowgli Street Food: Mowgli is a UK-based Indian casual dining chain rooted in home-style and street-food recipes. It is comparable to Mother India as a casual Indian dining operator with a strong authenticity narrative, similar menu breadth, and comparable per-cover price positioning.
• Lasan: Lasan is an Indian restaurant in Birmingham, West Midlands, offering full-service Indian cuisine with a private dining focus. It is a strong local geography peer to Mother India and competes for the same regional dining and celebration occasions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/thenewmotherindia
• Instagraminstagram.com/thenewmotherindia
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mother-india

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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