The Hindu 02.07.2013
Corporation to serve city’s taste buds now
The Corporation here is diversifying its area of service, planning now to cater to the city’s ever-developing taste buds.
A
new venture from the local body is the Ananthapuri café’, one of the
two food outlets the Corporation will open to serve traditional cuisines
at subsidised rates. Three mobile cafeterias are also part of the plan,
and will soon hit important city centres.
Ananthapuri
café’ will come up inside the civic body’s jubilee memorial building
opposite SMV school at Ayurveda College junction.
The
ground floor of the memorial building will be converted into a café,
which would serve vegetarian and non vegetarian items. The project was
part of last year’s Budget and preliminary work had already commenced.
The café would be opened by end of this year, Welfare Standing Committee
Chairman Palayam Rajan has said.
A sum of around 40
lakh had been earmarked for the café in the current budget, he said,
adding the work would be expedited once the District Planning Committee
gave its approval for the annual plan. Around 30 women selected by
Kudumbasree would be given training to develop their culinary skills.
The café, besides having facility to accommodate around 50 persons at a
time, would have a parcel counter, the chairman said.
The
use of plastic would be prohibited and a biogas plant would be
installed inside the café. The gas generated from the plant would be
used for the working of the boiler in the hotel. An officer from the
health wing would be entrusted with the task to monitor the quality of
food served, he added.
