zero waste cafe

At 27, Nishtha Chauhan left engineering to launch a zero-waste café in Gujarat that now earns Rs 12 lakh a month. But it’s more than a business — through millet meals and workshops, she’s teaching over 2,000 children to eat mindfully and helping reduce 47 tonnes of plastic and carbon waste yearly.

From serving fresh and unsweetened natural juices in fruit shells to using steel, paper, banana leaf and now, wheat paste straws, the café has adopted several practices that set it apart from any regular eatery in Bengaluru.