Coffee Wagera

Mush Panjwani and Coffee Wagera featured by GTV Network, DAWN News, Hum TV, Runway Pakistan and many other channels!

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Mush Panjwani and Coffee Wagera have been featured on several print, online and TV media since the early popularity of the brand what we stand for. Here’s an attempt at putting together all of that in a blog post, to serve as inspiration for our own current and future associates, and hopefully many more entrepreneurs from the industry.

Nov-2022: Runway Pakistan. This was perhaps one of the most interesting and entertaining interviews ever, covering the story of Mush, Coffee Wagera, and some rapid-fire and other fun segments. Thanks to Naveed Azhar and team Runway…

Oct-2022: GTV Network, Kamyabi Ka Safar. This show highlights the success stories of local brands and covered the. journey of Coffee Wagera from a single outlet to a nationwide franchise. This was recorded at the Coffee Wagera Ittehad outlet. Thanks to Mohsin Raza and team GTV!

Dec-2018: DAWN News: Chai Toast Aur Host. Dino Ali did an awesome interview and Mush talked about social entrepreneurship, coffee and the highlight was a 2-minute motivational talk about four steps to success!

Jan-2019: GTV Network: G Utha Pakistan. This show with Nusrat Haris covered how to keep ourselves happy and motivated, the story of Coffee Wagera, the story of Mush Panjwani wagera.

Jun-2021: Interview with Dr. Nezihe Hussain of The SWOT’s Guide. We spoke about the challenges during COVID, and we stay positive and focused during these times…

Sep-2021: Azad Chaiwala‘s Founder Talk. This was about how to start and grow a coffee shop business – an entrepreneurship class with a lot of details that can help anyone. And Azad bhai made it possible for millions of his followers to get inspiration from Coffee Wagera and Mush Panjwani…

May-2018: Hum News Pakistan Covered the news of Coffee Wagera hiring a transgender barista. We continue to support the transgender community with job opportunities and/or free barista training program to help increase their employment opportunities…

May-2021: Vlogger Aisha Abrar talked about What’s So Special About Coffee Wagera. She highlighted the cafe model, free water, workbench, our social causes and more…

Dec-2020: Zarak Yusufzai of BeanScene interviewed Mush Panjwani for a beautiful documentary project sponsored by James Hoffman. Also in the interview is Faisal from Nomad Coffee Studio…

Oct-2022: Musa Raza Podcasts interviewed Mush Panjwani at Coffee Wagera Lahore outlet and talked about the success story, and how this could inspire other entrepreneurs…

Jan-2022: Maroosha Ali of Tasty Telecast did a feature at Coffee Wagera 5star outlet and explained why she thought this is the best coffee shop in Karachi…

Jan-Jun 2022: Hungarian Actress, Model and Vlogger, Agota Dunai featured Coffee Wagera several times during her travels to Karachi. First as one of the top five coffee places in Karachi. Then in the following video where she explains why she believes Coffee Wagera is the best coffee place in Karachi…

Grateful for the support of so many awesome people who make it a mission to find inspiring stories, cover them well and make it reach the masses!

Coffee Wagera founded by Mush Panjwani completed two years, and continues to grow!

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What started as a dream few years ago is a now a success story many wish to learn from. The blog post on CW site highlights the contributions of the team, suppliers, service providers, franchisees and other supporters.

What I wish to share here are the 20 unique things about Coffee Wagera. We may be the only (or the first) café in Pakistan to…

  1. Support women empowerment by buying most of our snacks from female entrepreneurs, and to further support the community through Brunch Wagera
  2. Hire transgender as a barista, and to offer a free training program for transgenders
  3. Have a menu in Braille for the visually impaired
  4. Learn sign language to communicate with customers with speech/hearing impairment
  5. Say ‘no’ to plastic bottles, and provide free drinking water to all customers
  6. Implement ten steps to reduce waste, support clean-city and be eco-friendly
  7. Support students and startups, by providing a fully functional workbench, with individual power/USB socket for a minimum spending of just Rs.248 per day
  8. Provide three WIFI connections (and free coffee if WIFI doesn’t work)
  9. Provide low-cost franchise opportunities to promote entrepreneurship
  10. Support local artists by displaying and selling their ‘coffee paintings’ at every outlet
  11. Run innovative events like Coffee Tour in collaboration with other cafes, Brunch Wagera to support female entrepreneurs, Coffee Workshops to share coffee skills/knowledge, free training programs for personal development, Open Mic to encourage new talent…
  12. Provide “happiness” training to all staff
  13. Greet every customer with the most enthusiastic “Salam Alaikum! Welcome to Coffee Wageraaaaaa!”
  14. Open 5 outlets in 2 years (the last four opened within a span of six months)
  15. Operate a cafe without any kitchen/cooking
  16. Implement ‘no free beverages/snacks’ policy that applies to all owners, family members, friends, bloggers, influencers, celebrities… and everyone else who wishes to support CW
  17. Offer a 10% discount to students and senior citizens
  18. Offer free coffee to non-Pakistani visitors, when they buy any snacks
  19. Offer free coffee on your birthday, when you buy any snacks
  20. Have a founder with an official designation of ‘Chief Happiness Officer’ – Mush Panjwani also teaches happiness at corporates and non-profits, and is also a published author.

And we are very proud to receive the ‘Best Coffee Place of the Year 2019‘ award by APRA (All Pakistan Restaurant Association).

The lockdown due to Corono did not allow us to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary with a party, but we had a virtual meeting with 30+ team members, complete with a flashback slideshow (inserted above), an address by Mush and many special Awards of Appreciation.

Extremely grateful to have achieved the first goal of opening five outlets in Karachi in two years, and moving forward with a lot of faith for the next goal: 20 across Pakistan in five years. Thank you everyone for your support.

Why I celebrate the day I got fired…

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Mush Panjwani's Coffee WageraToday is the 5th Anniversary since I got fired from Time Life / Educational Technologies in 2013, after working with them for 16 years! I was very positive that day, and every year it becomes more obvious why that was one of the best things that could happen. Losing my job made it possible to:

  • Start my own training and consulting company, Dinchack – and positively influence the lives of 2000+ people through 50+ training sessions in 5 countries in the first year alone.
  • Join Learning Time as a Director Sales, Marketing & Training – and help develop and launch awesome early learning products in 18 countries in 3 years; travel to many new places and work with many more wonderful people.
  • Start a direct sales company, A Better Chance in Pakistan – and help make it one of the top three distributors of Learning Time in two years.

And I am thrilled to reveal my next venture, a coffee shop in Karachi! Coffee Wagera is scheduled to open on 1st April. More about this dream in the next blog post 🙂

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change. At such moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back…” ~Paolo Coelho

PS. Thanks to my family, friends, clients, everyone at Learning Time and A Better Chance for their tremendous support during these years, without whom none of the above was possible.