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{{Infobox company
|name = Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar
|logo = Annapoorna north coimbatore.jpg
|logo_size = 300px
|type = Chain of Restaurants
|genre = South Indian Vegetarian Cuisine
|foundation = Early 1960s
|founder = K. Dhamodarasamy Naidu
|location_city = Coimbatore
|location_country = India
|location = |locations = more than 16
|key_people =
|area_served = India
|industry = Restaurant
|products = Food, Sweets, Snacks
|services =
|revenue =
|operating_income =
|net_income =
|num_employees = 1500
|parent =
|divisions =
|subsid =
|owner =
|homepage = [https://web.archive.org/web/20111201014436/http://www.sreeannapoorna.com/restaurants.html Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar]
|dissolved =
|footnotes =
}}

'''Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar''' is a vegetarian restaurant chain based out of [[Coimbatore]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], India.<ref>{{cite news|last=Narayanan|first=R. Y|title=Entertaining guests at short notice — Without sweating it out in the kitchen|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2002/12/16/stories/2002121601091300.htm|accessdate=12 December 2011|newspaper=Business Line|date=16 December 2002}}</ref>

The Annapoorna chain was started in the early 1960s by K. Dhamodarasamy Naidu as a catering unit in Kennedy movie theater in [[R. S. Puram, Coimbatore]]. Later a coffee house was set up and run by Naidu and his three brothers K. Rangaswamy Naidu, K. Ramaswamy Naidu and K. Lakshmanan. It offered coffee, tea and tiffin items. In 1968, they opened a vegetarian restaurant under the name "Sree Annapoorna". The business grew as more restaurants were opened in many locations in Coimbatore. In 1980, a lodging hotel was opened. Currently the Annapoorna group has more than 16 restaurants in Coimbatore and in other cities of Tamil Nadu. It also operates other businesses like kitchen equipment manufacturing, construction, instant food mix production and bottling beverages. The company is currently led by chairman, K. Rammaswamy Naidu.<ref>{{cite news|last=ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER|first=MINI|title=South side story|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/01/06/stories/2007010600730500.htm|accessdate=12 December 2011|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720145829/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/01/06/stories/2007010600730500.htm|archive-date=20 July 2008|date=2007-01-06|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ramanujam|first=TCA|title=A recipe that didn't cook up|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2003/08/02/stories/2003080200930900.htm|accessdate=12 December 2011|newspaper=[[Business Line]]|date=2 August 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Doyen of hospitality industry dead|url=http://hindu.com/2006/11/22/stories/2006112210750400.htm|accessdate=12 December 2011|date=22 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322212948/http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/22/stories/2006112210750400.htm|archive-date=22 March 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of vegetarian restaurants]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111201014436/http://www.sreeannapoorna.com/restaurants.html Official website]
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2012}}

[[Category:Vegetarian restaurants in India]]
[[Category:Companies based in Coimbatore]]
[[Category:Restaurants in Coimbatore]]
[[Category:Fast-food chains of India]]
[[Category:Restaurant chains in India]]
[[Category:1960s establishments in Tamil Nadu]]

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