Cafe Coffee Day

I work at this Cafe Coffee Day on Paud Road in Kothrud, and it’s a lot busier than you might think. We get a lot of students from the nearby colleges who come in to study or just hang out for hours. Sometimes I have to wipe down the tables five times in an hour because someone spilled sugar or left a mess. The coffee machine has this constant hiss that I hear in my sleep. We have a routine here. First person in opens the shutters, checks the milk, and gets the beans ready. It’s not just about the coffee, though. People come here to talk about their lives or have meetings. You see people on their laptops all day, barely looking up. I try to remember the names of the people who come in every morning, but it's hard when it gets packed. The afternoon sun hits the windows right around three, so we have to adjust the blinds. We aren't some fancy high-end place, we’re just the spot where people meet up before going somewhere else. Sometimes the Wi-Fi acts up and everyone looks at me like I can fix it right away. I just do my best with what we have. It’s a good place to work if you like seeing different people every day. Kothrud always has something going on.