cafe coffe day.. Karachi..

[IndianTiger]

BANGALORE: India's biggest
coffee-cafe chain Cafe Coffee
Day (CCD) opened its first cafe
in Pakistan's commercial
capital of Karachi on
Wednesday. CCD's first outlet has opened for business in
Karachi's Zamzama
Commercial Area, famous for
its designer outlets and
vibrant cafe-culture. Within the next 12 months,
CCD plans to open four more
cafes in Karachi and expand
into Lahore and Islamabad.
CCD is planning 25 cafes in
Pakistan over the next few years. "We feel that an Islamic
country with a booming
economy like Pakistan has
great potential for
consumption of non-alcoholic
brews," Cafe Coffee Day director Naresh Malhotra said
here on Thursday. CCD's entry into Pakistan is
through the franchise route.
"We have tied up with a
leading industrial house
owned by a reputed business
family. I cannot tell you who it is as the announcement will
be made in Pakistan by the
group who is our master-
franchisee for our expansion
plans there. The baristas —
those who brew and serve the coffee — are all from —
Pakistan and have come here
for training," Mr Malhotra said. Cafe Coffee Day now has 364
cafes in India and three
abroad, two in Vienna and one
in Karachi. While Europe will
be the biggest region for CCD's
expansion plans abroad, Pakistan could over the next
few years have more CCD
outlets than any other foreign
country. Asked whether Coffee Cafe
Day would be looking at
other neighbouring countries,
Malhotra says: " Our focus will be on Pakistan
which we feel is a far more
challenging market in terms
of risks and opportunities. The
area where we have opened
our first cafe in Karachi is familiar to me since I have
stayed in a guest-house there
while working for Sheikh
Bukhatir, the man who
brought cricket to Sharjah."
Familiarity breeds content and expansion!

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

Good News!!

 

[INDIC]

The service and taste of coffee is great there, the company has capability to spread world wide.

 

[KRAIT]

Hope there won't be any controversy like those factions saying Indians have mixed substance in their coffee to cause impotency.....like old times.

 

[RPK]

Today somebody talking about opening chai shop in delhi for him

 

[T90TankGuy]

used to be a fan of ccd but i hate the way they make a black coffee, drink that and you are sure to puke .

i switched loyalties to barista 6 yrs ago

good to see CCD expanding . i heard they are planing to open one in dubai . any news on that?

 

[Damadji]

 

[cloud_9]

LOL! 6 year's old news
Cafe Coffee Day opens in Pakistan - Economic Times

Sorry but Cafe Coffee Day is pretty shiz nothing more than a overpriced instant coffee.

 

[Baby Leone]

why indians are investing ??

as per most of the indians Pakistan is the most backward, islamist, terrorists & wht not blah blah blah etc...nation:O?

Topic: there are already hundreds of Pakistani European & asians outlets in metro Pakistani cities soo there is stiff competition..

 

[harpoon]

I never understood the allure of drinking expensive coffee in an air conditioned shop when you can have much better coffee at 1/10 the price outside at a South Indian Coffee Shop or Indian Coffee house.

 

[INDIC]

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[harpoon]

There is a difference between restaurant and dhaba.

Indian Coffee House is not a dhaba.

Indian Coffee House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Mirza Jatt]

The pics posted above doesnt seem to be of CCD karachi...as the glowboard writings are in bengali.

 

[pakindia]

The pics posted above doesnt seem to be of CCD karachi...as the glowboard writings are in bengali.

well, he was just showing samples of a CCD restaurant i assume......

 

[acetophenol]

Never knew CCD was indian,though liked their limecream cold coffee.