Business has not been usual at the Ambur Rawther Biriyani Centre, a small shop which caters to poor sections of the society near the Koyambedu flyover.
“We used to sell the biriyani as well as white rice by 2pm. Now we hardly have customers and the entire food is getting wasted,” rued the owner.
“Many of them came with currencies of Rs 500 and Rs 1, 000. We turned them away,” she said.
“We make around Rs 2,000 a day by selling Biriyani. Today, we could barely reach Rs 1,000,” she rued.
Interestingly, her eating joint is not the only to have been affected, entire small and medium hotels have been hit.
With people hardly having any cash due to the closure of ATMs, many people have been struggling to get food. Workers in Sivasakthi fish stall who usually eat at Krishna Bhavan Hotel near Kilpauk have to go hungry as the hotel is shut as it did not have change to pay back its customers.
“I did not have change to even buy a cup of tea. I have only Rs 500. So I avoided it,” said Kannan.
Interestingly, hotels like Karthick Tiffin Centre which is usually crowded in the morning as well as for lunch has been hit with clientele coming down to less than 50 per cent. “While our breakfast sales came down from Rs 15,000 a day to Rs 9, 000 out lunch sales dropped from rs 40,000 a day to less than 20,000. Nearly, 50kg of rice remains wasted,” said a worker in Karthick Tiffin Centre.
Even eating joints like Hot Chips and Adyar Ananda Bhavan have been hit. A employee at Adyar Ananda Bhavan in Anna Nagar said that the sales have been hit by 10 to 15 per cent.
Even mutton, chicken and fish stalls have been hit. Sivasakthi fish stall had to down the shutters early as they hardly had any consumers. “It is a total loss to us,” rued the owner. “Our losses for today is around Rs 50,000. These are perishable goods. We can’t store it for long,” he says.
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