If the TV was your window screen in the '90s, then, today, the smartphone is a plane ticket around the globe. The mushrooming of small QSRs that dot areas like Carter Road, Versova Beach Road and the bustling streets around Hinduja Hospital, is not purely incidental. It's a spillover of the technological consumption (in the form of pictures you like, pages you follow and hashtags you use) of food online. That's probably the reason why, sometimes, on your way to meet a friend, you chance upon a bubble tea joint and think to yourself, "Hey, I saw that somewhere." And in all probability, you did.

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