Nanglo Bakery Cafe

Nanglo's Bakery Cafe is a restaurant chain in Nepal. The chain is recognized in Nepal as an entriprise to employ deaf people as waiter and waitresses. The first cafe of the chain was established in 1991 at Teendhara, Kathmandu.[3] Nanglo during its early days was considered to be a trend setter in the restaurant culture in Nepal.[1][4]

Nanglo Bakery Cafe
TypeRestaurant
Founded1991
FounderShyam Sundar Lal Kakshapati and Gopal Sundar Lal Kakshapati [1]
Headquarters
Nepal
Number of locations
14
Number of employees
290 including 45 deafs[2]
Websitewww.thebakerycafe.com.np

Currently, it owns cafes at Boudha, Bhatbhateni, Dharahara, Gwarko, Jawalakhel, Maharajgunj, New Baneswor, Pulchowk, Teendhara and Teku. It also has branches in Butwal and Tansen.[2] Its flagship restaurant at Durbarmarg was closed in 2014 due to expiry of lease contract.[1] There are more than 14 branches of the café within and outside of Kathmandu, making it one of the largest and most popular restaurant chains in Nepal.[5]

History

The original name of the cafe was the Bakery Cafe which was established in 1973. It is one of the early cafe established in Nepal. During that time, it was even difficult to find the buns and breads in Nepal.[6] This led to opening of bakery factory by its owner in 1982, to supply the bakery products for the restaurant. In 1991, the restaurant was officially registered.[5]

Social significance

The chain took the initiative to hire deaf people to run the restaurant in 1997 when they opened their chain at New Baneshowor. Initially, it was an experiment, and the disabled were trained by the owner himself.[7][8] Later, when the company decided to hire them permanently, a formal training was conducted to teach them English and sign language. The Hotel Association of Nepal and the Austrian-Salzburg Hotel Management School conducted the training.[5] These waiters and waitresses can take order using gestures bivalent with Nepali Sign Language.[9]

The cafe also served as a meeting point for various political activities in Nepal during the democratic movement in 1990s.[10]

Stores

The group has restaurants in the following locations:

  • Kathmandu
    • New Baneshwor
    • Boudha
    • Bhatbhateni
    • Dharahara
    • Gwarko
    • Jawalakhel
    • Maharajgunj
    • Teendhara
    • Teku
  • Lalitpur
    • Jawalakhel
  • Butwal
  • Tansen (known as Nanglo West)[11]

Controversies
  • In 2016, an illegal bakery factory was found to operate in Sanepa using licence of Thaiba.[12]

References
  1. "Nanglo closes down flagship restaurant". Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  2. "Bakery Cafe". Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  3. Tuesday, Ruby. "The Bakery Cafe Review -Nepali Times". Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  4. "The fast food frontier". Himal Southasian. 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  5. "Nanglo Bakery Café – Boss Nepal". Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  6. Damai, Muni Devi (2010). "If I were a witch, would I have spared those who humiliated me?": 16. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "The Bakery Cafe". Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  8. "Bakery Café deserves kudos for employing the deaf". GorakhaPatra. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  9. Hoffmann-Dilloway, Erika (2011). "Ordering burgers, reordering relations: Gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis". Pragmatics. 21 (3): 373–391. doi:10.1075/prag.21.3.04hof. ISSN 1018-2101.
  10. Shrestha, Celayne Heaton; Adhikari, Ramesh (2010). "Antipolitics and counterpolitics in Nepal's civil society: the case of Nepal's citizens' movement". Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 21 (3): 293–316. doi:10.1007/s11266-010-9142-8. ISSN 0957-8765. S2CID 145273041.
  11. "Nanglo West | Tansen (Palpa), Nepal Restaurants". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  12. "Nanglo Bakeries' "illegal factory" in Sanepa sealed". The Himalayan Times. 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
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