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'With Zaika I catered a lot for weddings, parties and so on. 'The food is what I like I've been cooking for so long,вЂќ Khan said. They took over the spot that was Bao Chao, which closed recently after two of the co-owners moved away. The couple opened Bollywood Grill, also in the Old Capitol Town Center, this month.

Now, he and his wife, Shahana Sulthana, have decided the time is right to enter the restaurant world again. He closed it in 2015 after getting married and having a baby because it was too hectic running a restaurant with a newborn at home, he said. He managed a few other restaurants before opening his own fast-casual Indian lunch spot, Zaika, in the Old Capitol Town Center food court in 2008.

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He kept working at restaurants on the side while working for tech companies in the Corridor before deciding to dive into food full time. There, he learned to cook when he volunteered one day to help the owner, who was vegetarian, prepare lamb and chicken dishes.

While he was studying, he was working at area restaurants, including Taste of India in Iowa City. He then went on to finish his degree at Kirkwood Community College and has been here ever since. He was living in Texas when a friend's uncle got him a job selling Beanie Babies in Iowa, so he moved north. Khan studied chemical engineering before moving to the United States in 1998. Zameer Khan went to school for engineering, but discovered along the way that what he loved was the restaurant industry.