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Common Time opens fourth Delhi café in Hauz Khas, just over a year after its Lodhi Colony debut
Common Time's Hauz Khas café introduces Exceptions, a seasonally rotating selection of limited coffees served as hot or iced pour-overs. Co-founder Jaivardhan Bhatia says expansion is not only about opening more cafés but about becoming part of different parts of the city.
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Store and format facts
Figures from ET Hospitality,
| Time since first opening: | just over a year |
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What it means for the format
Three new Delhi openings in roughly a year point to a repeatable rollout, but the signal gives no unit economics, funding or sales data, so it is a positive momentum marker rather than a thesis-changing event.
Next on the rollout
- Any announcement of a fifth Delhi location or a lease in a new neighbourhood
- Exceptions appearing at the Lodhi Colony and other existing outlets
- Public signs of Common Time entering a city outside Delhi
- Rival cafés launching rotating or limited pour-over menus
- Reports of queues or sales at Hauz Khas, or of quiet at earlier outlets
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