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Café Coffee Day seeks to marry coffee drinking with book reading
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that seeks to encourage the reading habit of bookworms in conjunction with the pleasure of sipping coffee. Café Coffee Day has opened a Book Café in New Delhi. The company claims to have 150 cafes in 37 cities.
The company started the concept of the book café in select outlets across the country. The aim is to offer customers an even more relaxed café experience by leisurely browsing through an interesting selection of books and periodicals while sipping their favourite coffee.
The partner in this effort is EBD Book Café a bookseller whom Cafe Coffee Day has entered into a strategic tie up for placement and rotation of reading materials that appeal to the discerning customer. The café at Vasant Kunj in the capital is spread over 1400 sq ft. of indoor and outdoor space, set in the trademark youthful Café Coffee Day ambience. It serves a range of coffee recipes and food items.
The company’s marketing head Sudipta Sen Gupta explained that published research showed espresso bars are a fast-growing business. The chain sees potential not only in Book Cafés but in similar specialised cafés such as Garden Cafés, Fashion Cafés, Sport Cafés and Music Cafés while retaining the standard identity that has successfully established by Café Coffee Day.
The chain plans to take the number of cafés in NCR from 18 to 29 plus another 14 in the rest of North India by the end of the year. Many of these cafés will be also be equipped with Touch Screen Digital Audio and Video Jukeboxes which are fast becoming a standard feature requested by its customers.
Brands
Big Bowl appoints Lyxel & Flamingo as social and media partner
QSR brand eyes next growth phase after crossing Rs 100 crore ARR milestone
MUMBAI: Big Bowl, one of India’s largest bowl-format quick service restaurant brands from Lenexis Foodworks, has appointed Lyxel & Flamingo (L&F) as its social and media partner as it prepares for its next phase of growth.
The partnership comes after the brand crossed the Rs 100 crore annual recurring revenue milestone in 2025 and aims to help accelerate its journey towards Rs 150 crore ARR in its fifth year since launch.
Big Bowl currently operates more than 250 kitchens across 50 cities and has emerged as a major player in India’s organised bowl-format food segment. Built around hearty portions and delivery-first convenience, the brand offers a wide mix of Indian, Chinese and fusion bowls designed for quick, affordable and portable consumption.
As urban consumers increasingly gravitate towards easy-to-carry and value-driven meal formats, the company sees the bowl category as a scalable format aligned with modern eating habits.
With the appointment of Lyxel & Flamingo, Big Bowl plans to consolidate its social media and digital media operations under a single partner. The move is intended to sharpen its digital reach, strengthen youth-focused storytelling and improve performance marketing outcomes.
Lyxel & Flamingo, one of India’s largest independent digital-first agencies, manages more than 350 brands and oversees advertising spends exceeding $100 million across its network.
Under the mandate, the agency will handle Big Bowl’s social media strategy, content development, digital performance marketing, media planning and buying, as well as campaign amplification across platforms.
Commenting on the partnership, Lenexis Foodworks founder and director Aayush Madhusudan Agrawal said, “Big Bowl has scaled rapidly to cross Rs 100 crore ARR and established itself as one of the largest bowl-format brands in the country. As a delivery-first, digitally native brand, our next phase of growth will be driven by sharper performance systems and stronger brand storytelling. Consolidating social and media with Lyxel & Flamingo allows us to integrate data, creativity and media precision as we scale towards our next revenue milestone.”
Lenexis Foodworks marketing head Vikas Iyer, added that the delivery-led category requires content, media and performance marketing to work closely together.
“With Lyxel & Flamingo, we aim to build a sharper social voice, stronger acquisition systems and measurable impact, ensuring the brand scales not just in presence but also in precision,” he said.
Lyxel & Flamingo chief executive officer Dev Batra, said the agency will combine data-driven marketing with creative storytelling to support Big Bowl’s growth. “Big Bowl brings the flavour, and L&F brings the fire. Our strategy combines data-led performance with engaging storytelling to help build a strong digital brand presence while delivering measurable business results,” he said.
With this partnership, Big Bowl is looking to strengthen its position as a digitally driven QSR brand, blending brand-building with performance marketing as it scales within India’s rapidly growing organised food delivery market.
