2010-01-01 11:29:50
Shanthi Vihar, among the oldest South Indian restaurants in Colombo serving spicy thosai’s, wadas and other delicacies, closed its shutters on New Year’s Eve, discontinuing the services of 35 workers without notice, a union representing the workers said.
“They were asked to quit last night,” Leon Joseph, a spokesman for the Progressive Union said. The restaurant is among the oldest of a new generation of South India eateries that emerged in the late 1970s-early 1980s and was a very popular place at the Thummulla Junction on Reid Avenue.
Sources close to the restaurant owners said the owner of the premises had given notice to the operators to quit over non-payment of rent over a period of time.
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