The Simply Salad

Payal Pathak said she worked with British Airways as a reservation counter officer. She later started a PG (Paying Guest) business in Ahmedabad, which was doing well. However, after Covid-19, their business stopped, and they realized a potential demand for healthy food. Henceforth, they started their business of Simply Salad. Soham Payal Pathak is Payal's son and was just 19 years old at the time of the pitch, running the business alongside pursuing a BBA Hons in Finance Economics at Ahmedabad University. The Sharks were particularly charmed by the fact that Soham uses his mother's name as his middle name a detail Aman and Vineeta found endearing.

The Simply Salad is a cloud kitchen based in Ahmedabad delivering fresh, healthy, and creative salads to customers' doorsteps through weekly and monthly subscription plans. The company's mission is to transform the perception of salads in India from an unpalatable diet food to a genuinely delicious, filling, and culturally familiar meal. The product's most important commercial innovation is the Indian-flavour adaptation: rather than serving European or American-style salads with dressings unfamiliar to Indian palates, Payal's recipes incorporate Indian-friendly ingredients, spices, and flavour profiles that make the salads feel like a satisfying meal rather than a reluctant health compromise. The salads contain proteins, vitamins, fibre, low fats, and low carbohydrates.