Team Khwandona from UMT Wins Sprite Spice Wars Competition 2018
Tuesday, March 27 2018
The UMT community will be proud to note that the Team Khwandona from UMT has won the Sprite - Spice Wars Competition 2018. Team Khwandona consisted of 3 UMT students: Haseeb Khan, Sidra Fayaz and Saman Irfan.
The opportunity to participate in the competition was provided the Office of External Relations (OER) who arranged the Sprite promotional activity – Spice Wars on December 18, 2017 where several groups of students submitted their business proposals in 3 days of round activity at UMT Greens. The concept was launched by Sprite by the name of TV show: Spice Wars Season 2018 with an aim to provide a platform to develop, promote, support and enable young entrepreneurs to fulfill their dreams of opening a restaurant. Overall, 12 teams featured from across Pakistan, competing to win the grand Prize of PKR 5 Million to fulfill their dream of starting their own food business by pitching their unique ideas and blend of tasty dishes to impress the qualified team of judges.
There were 4 rounds and team Khwandona made us proud by winning it through all the rounds and securing PKR 5 Million for their suggested startup. Khwandona is the name of a restaurant suggested by the group of students of UMT lead by Haseeb Khan. They represent the culture and ambiance of Baluchistan with a unique taste of traditional dishes. The idea and the taste in the cooking competition has been highly appraised by all in Sprite- Spice Wars 2018.