Ola CEO Bhavish Agarwal recently visited a cafe in Bengaluru on his company’s newly launched yellow colored S1 scooter. Agarwal posted a picture and wrote, “Me and @varundubey having coffee with @OlaElectric S1 at Araku Coffee in Indiranagar, Bangalore. Come take a look!”.
Thereafter, industrialist Anand Mahindra suggested Bhavish to not only get on his scooter but try the cafe. Mahindra wrote, “Make sure you don’t stand next to your scooter all the time. Drive the scooter inside the cafe and check it out.”
Agarwal then told Mahindra that he was a regular customer of Araku Cafe and tweeted, “Sir! Great brand, product and service.”
Manoj Kumar, Co-Founder of Araku Cafe also felt happy to visit Agarwal Cafe. Kumar wrote, “The cafe is India’s destination to showcase the power of the new India flag! Watch how @OlaElectric unveils its electric scooter – a confluence of iconic brands!”
“Love your cafe Manoj! and the lovely people running it,” Agarwal wrote on Twitter.
Kumar said Agarwal is a regular patron and asked the Ola CEO to keep visiting the cafe.
“I know you are a regular mentor and this is a big ring of support for all of us, keep coming with folded hands and we will keep raising the bar,” Kumar wrote.
The story of Araku Coffee was started in 2001 by the Nandi Foundation as a tribal empowerment venture. The Nandi Foundation later established a social initiative called ‘Araku Originals’ in 2008 to give coffee a global push and begin attracting buyers from countries such as Japan. , South Korea, Switzerland and France.
Mahindra, who is also the chairman of the Nandi Foundation, introduced coffee in 2017 with a flagship store in Paris.
In October 2018, Araku Coffee won the gold medal for the best coffee pod at the Prix Epicure in Paris.
Araku coffee is grown in the ancestral areas in the highlands of the Araku Valley in the Eastern Ghats of India.
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