India, March 18 -- While restaurants and eateries across Mumbai struggle to cope with the commercial LPG shortage caused by the conflict in West Asia, for one of Mumbai's most iconic confectioners, it's a bit of a deja vu.

The 110-year-old Punjabi Ghasitaram Halwai is among the few food businesses that have faced a similar crisis before-over three decades ago, during the Gulf War in 1990-91. That was when founder Ghasitaramdas Bajaj's descendants decided to partly move to induction cooking systems.

While that pivot helped the popular sweets shop ride through the current gas crisis, its electric cooktops cannot handle all the cooking. Several processes require gas, Kunal V Bajaj, director, Punjabi Ghasitaram Halwai, told the Hindustan Ti...