Food with Coffee ??? or just Coffee? . . . Every time someone has ever thought of opening a café, this has been a perpetual question hanging in there since forever. Shall we have food? Shall we have less food? Shall we only keep coffee cause we want to focus on coffee? Shall we just get some bakery items from a nearby bakery? What food should be allowed in a café, what kind of food shall we not keep? Who made these rules? Shall I construct a kitchen with all the commercial kitchen amenities or shall I just have a small place to make a sandwich or two? We are always so not sure about it. Not just as an owner sometimes even as customers. As a Customer sometimes we assume, oh that seems like a nice café, they must definitely also have some good food option or on the other extreme, ‘Oh you guys are a café, do you serve butter chicken masala? Or Momo? Or Biryani?’ What is right and what is not? How does an establishment think of the right balance between good coffee and food? What are the do’s and don’ts (SPECIFICALLY for our INDIAN market). Café culture as a whole is definitely not native to us, but the people we are catering to, are. This episode is not technically an interview kind of #podcast but more like a conversation between 3 people discussing the importance of Food in a Café setting. I have seen these 2 people grow from pretty much a newbie to coffee (in my first #baristatraining Session) to all the way from opening and running a beautiful #specialtyCoffee shop in the city of Gujarat. We talk a lot of food, (cause that’s the episode) right from the humble #breadandbutter to #Kheemapao , to #pinkpasta (fine don’t cringe) - #pasta to pizzas and a lot more, we speak about a few cafes around the country that have some great combination,