Kanteen India Equipments Co.

We are up on the first floor at 57 Ganesh Chandra Avenue. It’s an old building, so you have to walk up the stairs to get to us. We’ve been here for a good amount of time now. The space is filled with all kinds of kitchen gear and heavy stuff. It gets a bit cramped when a new shipment arrives and we have to find room for everything on the shelves. Sometimes it feels like we are playing a game of Tetris with the wooden crates. People come in looking for specific things for their kitchens or their small businesses. We don't have a fancy showroom. It's more of a working office and storage area combined into one room. The windows look out over the street and it can get pretty loud with all the traffic below. We usually have the radio on to drown out the noise of the cars and buses. It’s a lot of manual work, moving things around and checking lists. We drink a lot of tea and coffee to stay moving throughout the day. If the lift isn't working in the building, it's a real chore getting stuff up here. My assistant usually handles the phones while I'm in the back checking the stock levels. It’s a basic setup but it’s ours. We just keep at it every single day. Most of our regulars know the way up the stairs by now and don't mind the clutter.