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The Dumpling
That Changes
Everything.

Steam. Serve. Repeat. The Future of Fast.

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The Story

A food made
for this
moment.

ORIGIN: THE HIMALAYAS
DESTINATION: EVERY CORNER
OF AMERICA

Every decade, a single food crosses over. It moves from its cultural home — from the streets and kitchens of one world — and finds its way onto the tables and into the routines of an entirely different one. The journey is rarely planned. It happens when timing, taste, and hunger for something new align in the same moment. We believe that moment is now, and the food is the Himalayan Momo.

The momo is not new. For centuries, it has fed families along the mountain corridors of Nepal, Tibet, and the high Himalayas — steamed, folded, filled with care, and served with a heat that warms from the inside out. It is one of the great dumpling traditions of the world. And it has been hiding in plain sight on American soil for a generation, tucked inside small family restaurants and dimly lit storefronts wherever the Nepali diaspora has quietly built a life.

"The California Roll didn't change sushi. It changed America's relationship with an entire culture. The Momo is next."

Dumplington exists to bring that food to its rightful moment. Not as a novelty. Not as a gimmick. As a genuinely great thing to eat — simple, fast, honest, extraordinary — available wherever people live, work, and move through their days. We are building something that has never been built before: the first national Himalayan Momo brand. And we are building it the right way.

The white space is real.
The timing is now.

$32B U.S. Fast-Casual Market

Growing at 8% annually — the most dynamic segment in the American food economy, and still largely dominated by concepts built on cuisines from a single hemisphere.

4.8M+ South Asian Americans

The fastest-growing demographic in the U.S., deeply concentrated in the metro corridors where QSR foot traffic is highest — and the most underserved group in fast-casual dining.

0 National Momo Brands

There is no national Himalayan QSR brand. Not one. The category is wide open. The cuisine is beloved regionally. The infrastructure has never been built. Until now.

The Future of Food is Cultural.

Every generation gets one food crossover moment — one cuisine that travels from its cultural origins into the mainstream and never looks back. These moments don't happen by accident. They happen when the food is extraordinary, the timing is right, and someone builds the infrastructure to carry it there.

The 1980s Sushi

From Tokyo fish markets to strip mall staple. The California Roll was the bridge that changed everything.

The 1990s–2000s Burritos

Chipotle built a $50B empire on a single Mexican-American tradition, executed with obsessive consistency.

The 2010s Kebab & Pita

Cava turned Mediterranean into the fastest-growing fast-casual concept of the decade. Mediterranean went from niche to national.

Now — 2027 onwards The Momo

The Himalayan Momo is a perfect food for this moment. Dumplington is the brand that takes it national.

"We are not building a restaurant. We are building the defining food brand of the next decade — one perfectly folded momo at a time."

What We're Building

Simple food.
Extraordinary
execution.

Dumplington is a Steam & Serve kiosk concept — small footprint, zero hood suppression, zero chef dependency. Designed to operate in the places people already are: malls, airports, university campuses, transit hubs. The product is proprietary. The model is repeatable. The results are extraordinary.

01

Zero Hood.
Zero Chef.

Our kiosks require no ventilation hood systems and no culinary training. Every momo is co-packed, USDA-certified, and designed for consistent, beautiful execution by any team member in 48 hours of training.

02

200 Sq. Ft.
Full Margin.

A Dumplington kiosk operates in 200–400 square feet. Lower rent. Lower overhead. Higher margins than any comparable QSR concept. The economics are built to work from day one.

03

Built for
Scale.

From the first kiosk to a national footprint, every element of Dumplington is designed to replicate cleanly. One product family. One operating system. One brand — everywhere.

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The Founder

Jewan
Tiwari.

Founder & Principal · Dumplington · Oval Business Group

Jewan Tiwari has spent two decades at the intersection of business acquisition, franchise development, and M&A advisory — helping owners build enterprises worth selling, and buyers find enterprises worth owning. He operates at the highest level of that work through, the BizQuisition one of the premier business brokerage firms in the Mid-Atlantic, and through the Oval Business Group, an integrated platform spanning real estate, franchise consulting, M&A, and SBA lending.

Jack is a seasoned foodtech entrepreneur who founded and operated FoodMerica , a marketplace and home-kitchen micro-restaurant platform launched across two markets, including an international pilot in Kathmandu, Nepal. His hands-on experience building from zero, navigating regulatory complexity, managing two-sided marketplace dynamics, and operating through a global pandemic now informs his work as he builds a new food platform. /p>

Dumplington is Jewan's life's work — the convergence of everything he has built, everything he has learned, and a deep personal conviction that the Himalayan Momo deserves its moment on the national stage. He goes by Jack in the industry, but this is personal. This is about building something that lasts.

The Oval Ecosystem — spanning LoansBloom (SBA financing), Oval Realty (site selection), and BizQuisition (M&A-driven franchise conversion) — gives Dumplington a structural advantage that no startup in the space can replicate. The infrastructure is already built. What comes next is the brand.

20+ Years in M&A
& Franchising
4 Integrated Business
Verticals
1 Vision Worth
Building

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