Celebrating 50 Years Of Chicago’s Iconic Patel Brothers Grocery Store

Fifty years ago, Mafat and Tulsi Patel opened their first grocery store off Damen and Devon avenues. Fast forward to 2024, and Patel Brothers is the nation’s largest Indian grocery chain with 52 stores across the country. Reset learns how the iconic grocer came to be and the impact of connecting the community with South Asian foods and ingredients with one of the partners, Swetal Patel. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.