Jasuben Pizza

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Jasuben Pizza is a popular pizza shop in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, located in the Law Garden area. It was started by Jasuben Shah after she moved to Ahmedabad from Pune in the 1970s. The business grew and eventually expanded to six branches around the city. In the 1990s, Jasuben moved back to Pune, while her partner Joravar Singh Rajput kept the Ahmedabad operation going.

Andarben and Jorawar Singh Rajput later joined the business, and Andarben is said to have created a secret sauce still used in their pizzas. The restaurant received media attention in 2013 when Narendra Modi praised it as an example of female entrepreneurship at a FICCI event.

The pizzas are an Indian-style version of the Italian favorite. They use Maida flour to make a thin, crisp base, topped with sweet tomato puree, chopped onions, and capsicum, then loaded with local cheese and seasoned with black pepper. The ovens at the branches were designed and built locally by Andarben to allow pizzas to be stacked.

Jasuben Pizza now sells about 20,000 pizzas every day, with each pizza priced at ₹70.