Healthier Profits for KTDC’s Museum Outlet

Fruit Sip – Only at KTDC Cafeteria

What’s KTDC doing with cash cow

Napier Museum and the surrounding green space is the green factory for Trivandrum. It’s remarkable architecture, grass slopes, flower beds, white chairs, all adds beauty and charm to this place. Napier Museum and Zoo attracts thousands of visitors from India and abroad..

Despite the heavy rush of tourist, there’s only one KTDC restaurant catering to all these people. So, what is about this cafeteria unit.

What’s KTDC Serves
It serves machine made coffee/tea, bottled juice (Sip-up) , potato filled cutlet and some plain flavored ice cream. It’s perpetually Despite the advantage position, it’s runs like a sick unit.

Go Thirsty Folks
There’s no sales of bottled drinking water, as plastic bottles are banned inside the museum. Sometimes, I wonder why get into some archaic rules that helps no one.

Golden Goose of KTDC
The cafeteria is a true monopoly for KTDC. No private vendor can set foot in this holy land. Despite all the freedom,  this place still clinks to the age old menu. Why?

Besides, you can’t find any popular brands like Pepsi or Coke? Again answer is a mystery. Instead you’ll get some unknown brand with the name ‘Fruitsip’. Where else do you get ‘Fuitsip’. I haven’t found this drink anywhere in Trivandrum, but in Museum cafeteria.

While this unit inside museum can triple or make 10 times the existing profit, it still prefers this level of archaic service. Apart from profit factor, it can also give visitors a memorable experience by providing more choices of juice, (fresh or bottled), better quality coffee/tea ( Hand made or machine made) or even give then tender coconut water (an healthy option).

So, I’m venting out few suggestions, hoping that some big wigs from KTDC department will wake and do something about it.

1. Replace those old plastic chairs with better ones
2. Keep additional staff (women) who can smile and deliver better service
3. Provide better choice of aerated drinks (Pepsi or Coke) or packed juice like ( Tropicana)
4. Replace old vending machine and introduce a better coffee vending machine 
5. Have a separate counter for hand-made team or filter coffee ( Chai Point stall kind)
6. Pls give more options, apart form Fruitsip 
7. Go natural and healthy by providing fresh tender coconut water 
8. Sell Napier museum memorabilia in a separate counter ( T shirts, key chains, fridge magnets)

These are points I could figure out. I think, you can add more to it. I hope the big brass from KTDC will have a chance to see my suggestion and act on it.

To Bigger Profits for KTDC!