Its a cool hang-out place where you can sip a mochachillo (Chocolate ice cream mixed with Cappachillo coffee, chocolate syrup, milk (whole or skim) & ice costing 45 bucks!) and listen to head-banging music of your choice thru’ Q-jam at the same time. That’s Café coffee day for you!
Café coffee Day unbelievably blends the best of both worlds. It is an Indian chain on one hand, and it outplays international players like Barista (outside Mumbai) and Wendy’s on the other. It makes you feel even better because India can now boast of a quality coffee-chain for the first time after being the 5th largest producer of Coffee.
Coffee is not anymore that prodigic drink of the 900 BC. It has different interpretations at different places across the world. Some people drink it hot while some likes it chilled. The Irish pour Whisky into it , the Italians mix cream with it and the southindian likes it in steel ’tumbler and saucer’. And what if one café can give all this under one roof. It also has many other offerings like the popular café Espresso and Cappuccino. In terse, it will make you drink cofee even if you are not used to it.
The brand is owned by Bangalore-based Amalgamated Bean Cofee Trading Company Ltd. It has more than 50 outlets all over India piercing into even smaller towns like Mangalore and Cochin. In chennai, the swanky Ispahani center (Near Gemini) outlet is woth a visit. The service is reasonably good. The Q-JamTM Music Juke Box developed by the very desi chennai-based Real Image Media offers you all kinds music.
Q-Jam is a hard-disk based juke-box that can be controlled by the user (any customer!) thro’ a touch-screen interface. It has a database of all English, Hindi and Tamil Songs and at regular intervals, it gets updated too!
Café cofee Day now have a customer loyalty program in which they will reward their regular customers. Anyone who bills 100 bucks at one go can avail the membership to the café citizens program. It offers a discount of 10% on all food and beverages from the chain for a year from the month of membership. Memebers can also hope for freebees from Indiatimes when their total bill amount crosses Rs 2000, Rs 5000, Rs 10, 000. And they can check the total bill amount at any outlet all across India!