On a hot Thursday evening in Delhi, customers have queued up outside Olive Garden’s first outlet in India.

Some have come straight after drooling over Instagram reels about the American casual-dining restaurant chain. Others are office-goers from the nearby business park in Aerocity. Most of them have spent at least half an hour waiting for a seat.

When Bharti Group broughtLivemintBharti-backed Gourmet Investments brings Olive Garden to India Olive Garden to India in May, it probably hoped to see this very........

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