A Post Coffee kiosk on an Indiranagar street, painted ochre with a domed top and a single serving window.
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POST
Coffee

Every route has a post.

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00The idea

A post is a marker on a route. Not a destination.

Every coffee brand in this country sells you somewhere to sit. We are building the opposite. One window, specialty coffee, and three minutes for people who are already on their way somewhere else.

That single idea decides everything else. Why there is no seating. Why the menu is eight lines long. Why the shop is shaped like a road marker rather than a shopfront.

01The format

Small on purpose.

Seventy square feet is the minimum, not the ceiling. What never changes is the shape of the visit: you walk up, you say your usual, you leave. Nothing in the shop exists to slow that down.

3 minWalk up to cup in hand
70 sq ftMinimum footprint
2 peopleA full shift, not six
8 drinksTwo sizes, no more
A man walking down an Indiranagar footpath carrying a Post coffee cup.
02The build

A road marker, not a shopfront.

2600 wide, 2800 tall, a domed top and a single serving window at counter height. The whole thing is fabricated off site and installed in a day.

2600Width, mm
2800Height, mm
1500Serving window, mm
1050Counter height, mm

Concept drawing. Final dimensions confirmed with the fabricator against your site.

Front elevation drawing of the Post Coffee kiosk with dimensions in millimetres.
Front elevation, drawing PK-001
A barista passing a Post coffee cup through the kiosk window to a customer.
Two hands, one counter, and nothing in between.
03The system

Every Post looks like itself.

Three things change from one outlet to the next and nothing else does. It is what lets a network of small shops feel like one brand without any of them feeling like a copy.

A plain cream Post takeaway cup marked with its outlet postmark.

The number

Every outlet takes its number from its own pincode. Geography assigns it rather than us, so no outlet ranks above another and the system never runs out.

An olive green Post Coffee kiosk lit from within at dusk.

The colour

One shade per outlet, floor to fascia, carried through to the cup and the stamp. Each colour is matched to a single origin from our own roastery.

A hand pressing a wooden rubber stamp onto a Post coffee cup beside an open ink pad.

The stamp

One rubber stamp per outlet and one plain cup across the whole network. Marked by hand at the window, never quite straight. That is the point.

The ochre Post Coffee kiosk in daylight.
Ochre
The olive green Post Coffee kiosk at dusk.
Olive
The five Post Coffee outlet shades shown as kiosk silhouettes.
Five in all
04The Book

Ten coffees, paid for once.

Not a loyalty card. Nobody finishes those. The Book is bought upfront the way you buy a book of stamps, and every cup you collect is cancelled with your outlet's postmark until the card is full.

A postmark exists to cancel a stamp so it cannot be used twice. On the Book it is doing exactly the job it was invented for.

A worn Post Coffee card with postmarks stamped on it, pulled from a back pocket.
One stamp per cup, until the card is full
05The coffee

Roasted by us, which is the whole reason this works.

No importer in the middle and no guessing what is in the bag. We source it, we roast it, and we train every barista who serves it. That is what lets a shop this small pour coffee this good at this price.

Roasted coffee beans falling from a hand onto a dark surface.

Our own roast

Sourced and roasted in house, with a single origin assigned to each outlet and rotated through the network every quarter.

Espresso extracting from a bottomless portafilter into a Post cup.

Dialled in daily

Every drink on the board starts here. The menu is short so that this part can be right, every morning and again when the weather turns.

Matcha being whisked in a ceramic bowl with a bamboo whisk.

And matcha

Ceremonial grade, whisked to order. Not everyone in a coffee queue drinks coffee, and matcha never waits on the espresso machine.

The whole menu

Eight lines, two sizes, and one signature that changes with the outlet. Short enough to keep the queue moving and short enough to get every one of them right.

  • No seating
  • No table service
  • No kitchen
  • Specialty only
The Post Coffee menu board listing eight drinks grouped as black, white and other.
A screen print style illustration of a Post Coffee kiosk on an Indian street at dawn, with the line Every route has a post.
06Partner with us

One Post per pincode.

We are signing our first outlets now. You bring the site. We bring everything else: the kiosk, the espresso machine, the coffee, the training, the software and the people behind it.

15 to 20LTotal investment, complete setup
5%Royalty on revenue
1%Marketing, pooled
70 sq ftMinimum, street facing

Westend Coffee is one of the few coffee franchisors in India that owns its whole supply chain. We manufacture our own commercial espresso machines, roast our own coffee, train every barista in our own academy, and build the software that runs the shop.

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A Post coffee cup resting on a scooter seat beside a helmet on a city street.
Most of the queue is on two wheels
Post Coffee  /  A Westend Coffee format Concept visuals. First outlets being signed now. partners@takumibrew.com