When Neysha Pereira's husband got sick, he lost his job on the cruise liner in 2018 because he couldn't go back. It made the Malad-based mother step up to become the sole earning member of her family in 2019. She shares, "My kids were young in the fourth and fifth grade, and I couldn't leave them at home."

It was then that the Mumbaikar decided to start her food business. She narrates, "I started getting regular food orders through word of mouth and the church." Only a year later, Covid hit the entire world, and everything came to a standstill, but Pereira thinking on her feet, started a WhatsApp group with a few clients and friends, and that worked for her. "People trusted home cooked food. However, delivery was a problem, but we managed and did very well. At the time, my husband and I would go and deliver the food."