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Chitharanjan: Average cafe customers do not care which estate coffee comes from
“The average customer walking to a cafe doesn't care that this coffee comes from the state ABC.”
Chitharanjan: Record coffee bean prices only add 2–3 rupees per cafe cup
“In a coffee shop, even now, coffee prices are at a 50 year high right now. You know, add two, three rupees to the cost of a cup of coffee. So it's very easily absorbed in a coffee shop. In a packet of coffee, it's not very easily absorbed.”
Chitharanjan: 1,000 sq ft is the optimal coffee shop footprint
“2000, the capex becomes too large to fit it out. And the incremental revenue is not justifying the increase in rent as well. Below 800, then tables become occupied, and people don't want to wait for a coffee shop, though. If they see it's full, they'll just go…”
Matt: Food makes or breaks the success of a specialty coffee shop
“I think food is unfortunately something that's very, I mean, I say this as a copy person, food is something that really makes or breaks the success of the store.”
Chitharanjan: Competing cafe clusters expand foot traffic for all players
“Let's say a third wave coffee opens, a Starbucks coffee opens, a Chaios opens, an independent coffee shop opens, it actually sucks in more people to that market, and everybody does better.”
Matt Chitharanjan: Building a coffee brand without physical cafes is very difficult
“Without a cafe, it's very difficult to have a coffee brand without a cafe.”
Chitharanjan: General restaurants cannot effectively drive specialty coffee discovery
“You rely too much on the person who's brewing it. Yeah. And in most places, coffee is seen as a, okay, I invested in the machine, any random person can make the coffee, they're not gonna put the same care and effort that a coffee shop would.”