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Some restaurant atmospheres are plain dead - but one
Indian restaurant owner claims business has flourished since opening his
eaterie at the site of an old cemetery.
Rather than ripping out the graves to make way for his restaurant, owner
Krishnan Kutti even chose to preserve the coffins and place tables
around them at the ironically-named New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad.
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The coffins are the remnants of a Muslim cemetery and the cafe has now
become a popular hang-out for both young and old.
Kutti said: 'The graveyard brings good luck. Our business has been
flourishing because of these graves. It gives people a unique
experience.
'We have maintained the graves as they were. Our customers don't seem to
mind.'
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However, the owner has little idea who the graves belong to, while some
locals claim they contain the remains of followers of a 16th-Century
Sufi saint, whose tomb lies nearby.
Around a dozen graves lay inside the restaurant and have been sealed off
by iron grills.
Every morning, when the shutters of the restaurant are pulled up,
waiters spend some time wiping the gravestones and decorating them with
fresh flowers.
'We begin our day by paying respects to the graves.
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'We wipe them and cover them with cloth and also shower flowers on them.
'It is important to respect the dead,' said Kutti. |