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!

Napier Museum, Trivandrum


Napier Museum, Trivandrum kerala

Snap taken on the wee hours of the day. This place used to be my pitch to walk, jog and flirt … It’s at the heart of Trivandrum, a place that houses a Museum, zoo and a large expanse of flora and fauna. Call it an oasis for all the those in this town and the numerous visitors who come down to see the old edifice.

It’s an Historical place and it also house some odd artifacts. I think it is closed on Monday’s. Many a times I have come down here to spend my evenings with my friends, chatting worldly or mundane stuff and many a times I had coffee and snacks from the KTDC counter.

Every time I visit KTDC monopoly counter, I feel on how efficiently they mismanage this eating joint. Same bored counter staff, men behind the counter with no customer service touch points.. This is the only place in this vast compound where you get some refreshments and sadly this gold Pot for KTDC is wasted out.

KTDC counter at Napier museum

But why haven’t these suckers done any thing to provide a clean and a full fledged place. What all infinite opportunites are available to cater to the tastes of various nationalities and also people coming from other parts of India. When ever I have visited this place it only some odd cutlet and the usual coffee tea . At least they can come with a variety of ice creams, juice or even provide tender coconut water .

The KTDC has office very near to the park and so is Kerala Tourism park view office . Both would be chaired by some anointed IAS, and with the multitude of sarkari babus..

Are they dreaming from there or busy writing and re-writing some official notes that never seems to get over with.

It’s been more than a year since I had take to this place and by all probability it would offer the same food year after year… With many a reports of KTDC running into loss, making some slight changes in establishment right under their nose can be a good starter..

Well, I started to write this blog to talk about Napier museum and I ended up with something else. So be it, I’ll write more about my favorite park later and till then let’s chew on this…

God bless, God’s own country…