Giancarlos

Giancarlos is located at 16 Thippu Sahib Street in Pondicherry. The zip code is 605001. If you know the area, you know that Thippu Sahib Street is one of those typical Pondicherry streets that can be a bit tight when cars try to pass each other. We’ve been here in this building for a long time. It’s a small place, and we don’t have a big corporate structure behind us. It’s just a few of us who come in every morning to open up. We spend a lot of time cleaning the front area because the sea air and the dust from the street make things dirty pretty fast. The building itself is an older one, so it has some character, but it also means we’re always touching up the paint or fixing a window. We don’t have any fancy marketing people or big budgets. We just do our work and talk to the people who walk through the door. Sometimes it’s locals we’ve known for years, and other times it’s visitors who are just wandering around the heritage area. The pace of life here is a bit slower than in the big cities. We take a long break in the afternoon when it gets too hot. It’s a simple way to run a business. We don’t make big promises; we just try to keep the place decent and handle our daily chores on Thippu Sahib Street as they come up.