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Indian
Coffee
House is
a restaurant
chain in
India,
run
by
a
series
of worker
co-operative societies.
It
has
strong
presence
across
India
with
nearly
400 coffee
houses.
The
India
Coffee
House
chain
was
started
by
the
Coffee
Cess
Committee
in
1936,
when
the
first
outlet
was
opened
in
Bombay.
In
the
course
of
the
1940s
there
were
nearly
50
Coffee
Houses
all
over
British
India.
Due
to
a
change
in
the
policy
in
the
mid
1950s,
the
Board
decided
to
close
down
the
Coffee
Houses.
Encouraged
by
the communistleader A.
K.
Gopalan(AKG),
the
workers
of
the
Coffee
Board
began
a
movement
and
compelled
the
Coffee
Board
to
agree
to
handover
the
outlets
to
the
workers
who
then
formed
Indian
Coffee
Workers'
Co-operatives
and
renamed
the
network
as
Indian
Coffee
House.
A
co-operative
began
in Bangalore on
19
August
1957,
and
one
was
established
in
Delhi
on
27
December
1957.Later Bellary and Madras (Chennai)
Societies
were
separated
from
their
mother
societies.
Malviya
Marg
Branch,
Jabalpur
serves
as
the
head
office
of
ICWCS.
In
October
2018,
Indian
Coffee
House
has
its
8th
branch
of
Jabalpur.
ndia
Coffee
Board
Worker's
Co-operative
Society
Ltd.
No.4227,
Trissur: Established
on
10
February
1958.The
first
Indian
Coffee
House
opened
at
Trissur
on
8
March
1958.
It
was
also
the
fourth
ICH
in
the
country.
The
society
have
more
than
50
branches
across Trissur, Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam, Pathanamthitta, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram.