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- Kitchens of India
A lazy afternoon at Vishranti restaurant, Besant Nagar
A couple walk towards Vishranthi restaurant with the objective, obviously (hello?!) to eat, when they see people queuing up in a long line with... umbrellas! So they naturally ask what the fuss is about. The restaurant engages in mobile eating, they are told, especially when there is no place inside so could they please stand in queue?
Hungry as they are, they agree. Shortly afterwards, the waiter brings a black umbrella and a walking stick and requests them to begin their walk. The bewildered couple hold it just like the others. The boy then comes back with the food and a couple of plastic forks and knives and now could they please proceed to eat?
Hungry and tired for the most part, holding the umbrella on the one hand and food balancing gingerly on the walking stick on the other, they walk while tearing hungrily at the food, the scorching sun notwithstanding.
Shortly thereafter, apart from the cost of the food, they are billed an astronomical price for the props - the umbrella and the walking stick - and the ‘sylvan ambience’ under the benign gaze of the afternoon sun.
Bewilderment mounts to consternation when the couple realise that they have been robbed. Angry words are exchanged with the manager in the heat of the afternoon sun the details of which are recorded and uploaded on YouTube. (Dear me!)
The couple and the rest of the crowd are placated by the manager who tells them that the joke was on them and would they please accept with apologies for the inconvenience, a hamper of Kitchens of India with best compliments from ITC?
As usual, ITC Kitchens of India saves the day.
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