A new cafe opens for avid and aspiring board gamers.
Story so far: Now Boarding Cafe, in JP Nagar, is the city’s newest boardgame-themed cafe for board game enthusiasts. It is the brainchild of the entrepreneur partners Avikant Bhardwaj and Sweekruthi Kaveripatnam. Bharadwaj and Kaveripatnam used their experience as board game enthusiasts and teachers to design the cafe’s business model.
- The cafe was launched after several months of market research and developing models. Kaveripatnam came up with a business plan, after which it took six months to breathe life into it.
- The cafe has high-strategy games like Imperium classic, Imperium legends – rarely found in India, Civilization, and Settlers of Catan. They also have games for toddlers, like Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza.
Tell me more? The cafe is designed to facilitate board game play while relishing food and drinks. Customers may choose from different seating options like loveseats – an intimate two-person seating arrangement and cubby holes built to accommodate bigger groups. The cafe has a game master who will explain the rules of each game to the uninitiated.