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Know Why This Hyderabad Engineer Serves Tea in Clay Pots

The entrepreneur learnt to make tea from the mothers of his North Indian friends.

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Thirty-seven-year-old mechanical engineer Satyanarayana of Hyderabad launched “Taste Buds”, a chain of tea stalls on 11 December 2015 across Hyderabad. Instead of using plastic or paper cups, he serves his customers in earthen cups shaped like glasses.

Although he has been visiting several cities for work, the idea for the tea stalls came to him last August.

I noticed across North India, tea sellers used earthen cups to serve tea. I decided to start something like that here, which could help potters whose sales have declined in the city. In the past, every house used to have an earthen pot for cool water, but now with the increase in technology, people have switched to high-class fridges which has created a very bad situation for all the potters especially in urban areas.

Satyanarayana, Owner, Taste Buds

According to a report in TOI, experts have suggested that plastic cups being used by tea stalls be banned as those litter roads and choke drains.

Satyanarayana has four stalls in East Maredapally in Secunderabad, and three in Hyderabad which together sell around 200 to 300 cups every day. He has plans to expand to other areas of Hyderabad.

The shops serve different varieties of tea such as Tulsi tea, herbal tea, green tea, special masala tea, and also with as ginger, elaichi, badam, cinnamon and other flavours priced between Rs 7 and Rs 12.

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The entrepreneur learnt to make tea from the mothers of his North Indian friends.
The menu card of Taste Buds. (Photo: The News Minute)

“I learnt these tea recipes from the mothers of my north Indian friends and taught them to my staff,” Satyanarayana says.

He hired people who are in urgent need of jobs. “I also sponsor their food, accommodation and education, and they are happy.”

One such youngster employed is 18-year-old, G Rajkumar from the Uppal area in Hyderabad. His father is a potter whose business was run down because of lack of demand for earthen products.

Earlier we had a lot of financial problems as our business was not doing well. So I started to look for part-time jobs as I was not able to afford my college fees. But thanks to anna (Satyanarayana, whom he refers to as older brother), our financial condition has improved a lot.

He has now stopped looking for part-time work. “After college I make some time for preparing these pots and delivering them. Now I can afford my college fees,” he told The News Minute.

Twenty-seven-year-old Hyderabad businessman Charan told that Taste Buds was one of his favourite tea shops in East Marredpally.

I usually frequent Irani chai joints but one day this stall where the tea was being served in clay pots caught my eye. The tea had proportional mixture of good herbs which was a rare thing to expect from such small tea joint. Drinking it from a clay pot took me back to my childhood.

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