and it continues...

I'd written about the tussle amongst two of our canteen suppliers to capture the cold coffee market. Well summer's long gone and after a little cooling off the competition has been upped with the addition of an Amul counter!
My story starts with the team realizing one day that it's the boss's birthday and we don't have a cake. Our only option is to order it at least 4 hours in advance from the Coffee Day counter in the other building and we were about 2 hours too late for that. So we dragged ourselves to the nearest bakery to pick up a cake and whined about it all the way. And what do we see when we go upto the canteen to store it safely in the fridge - Amul has a humungous board proclaiming - ORDER CAKES HERE! which appeared just that day.
Now the juice counter guy got beaten in the cold coffee wars but you have to admire his spirit because next day an A4 (almost as if he's scared the Amul guy will see it!) size poster is stuck on his counter proclaiming 'Birthday cakes available'. Of course in all probability the same supplier supplies to both counters!
I'm now trying to decipher what is the next trend they'll clash on... black coffee?

ecoliving..

I've been thinking what to do about the upcoming long weekend and while sitting at my favourite sandwich place in Pune - Skips - heard the owner speak about this http://theecogrid.blogspot.com/
might give it a try if I convince enough people to join!