A Twitter post by SwatKat showed a tea shop in India’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru. The unique thing about it is its name Chai GPT which sounds similar to the viral AI tool ChatGPT. The Twitter post soon went viral, though the exact location of this tea stall is not known
Bengaluru, India’s IT hub is also the country's pre-eminent start-up hub. A tea stall named Chai GPT has now become famous due to its name. Twitter user SwatKat, who shared the image of this unique-named tea stall, wrote on Twitter, “Silicon valley: we have the best start-up ideas Indian tea shops: hold my tea”
A number of netizens responded by saying, “There must be already a chat GPT somewhere serving chat and panipuri already,” and “GPT be like, ‘Meri shaktiyon ka galat istemal kiya gaya ma’”
The Tweet has received over 1500 likes, with almost 37,000 views and 129 retweets. For the unversed, ChatGPT is an AI tool created by OpenAI. It can compose stories, articles, essays, poems and much more based on the textual prompts
Chai GPT is not the only food outlet with a unique name. A few months back, MBA Chai Wala became famous the owner of the outlet bought a Mercedes worth Rs 90 lakhs. Prafull Billore who started a chai stall in 2017 in front of IIM-Ahmedabad, now manages multiple outlets which sell tea, snacks and much more
Tapsi Upadhyay is an engineering graduate but instead of opting for a corporate job, she chose to run a snack counter. Her USP is that she sells air-fried pani puris to customers. Her videos with the pani puri cart around Tilak Nagar metro station in Delhi went viral
It is not just the food outlets which have unique names but also some start-ups. Sleepy Owl Coffee is a homegrown instant coffee brand in India. It had caught attention due to its unusual name. Its ad campaign revolving around the doppelgangers of famous Bollywood celebs also went viral. It is one of the first coffee brands in India to make its debut on ONDC
Epigamia is known for its Greek yoghurt. The word literally means a dynastic marriage or a more general agreement for intermarriage between Indians and Greeks. Rohan Mirchandani is the co-owner of Epigamia
Some after brands known for their unique names are Faasos, BTW (Bittu Titkki Wala), and Sattviko