Have coffee at Bucks or Buksh

New Delhi – An Indian coffee shop chain rhyming with Starbucks and with a similar logo has agreed to change its name after being sued by the US giant, the Indian firm said yesterday.

Starbucks, which entered the vast Indian market in 2012 and now has 125 outlets, began legal proceedings against “SardarBuksh”, which has 25 shops in New Delhi, in July.

“Our name rhymed with theirs which is why the court has ruled in their favour,” Sanmeet Singh Kalra, co-founder of SardarBuksh, said.

His company has agreed to change the name to the not-particularly-different “Sardarji-Bakhsh” within two months.

Kalra said his logo, like Starbuck’s circle of green and black with a central figure will not change. –