Middle Class Restaurants

I have just read Hari's writings saying the middle class restaurants are vanishing. The restaurants are there but they ae charging like high class. A few dsya back Chandru and I went to the Coimbatore city for a blood test on empty stomach and then had breakfast at Annapoorna which should be called a middle class restaurant. We had each two idlis, one vadai and coffe and the bill came to Rs.61. I remember the day I joined Shaw Wallace on 1st July 1955. I took to lunch a colleague there, we had dosai, bonda and coffee and after that we fought over the bill and I managed to get it and pay it. It was bill for Rs.Nil, nine annas and fifty paise.
At that that time the hotel, Modern Cafe in Thambu Chetty street was giving lunch at Rs.1 and four annas (25 paise), with an extra cup of curd for Rs.0.25.

Even now some hotels exist which give decent food at a reasonable price. For instance, when we go to Peruvemba via Palghat, we take breakfast or lunch at Ganesh Bhavan in Palghat. Their lunch even now is only Rs.15/- and there is no limit on the quantity. the atmosphere is homely like the hotels of the 1940s and the food tastes good and does not upsent the stomach.

-Ramakrishnan.