Bhavani Juice Shop

Bhavani Juice Shop is right on 1St Main Road in M R Nagar. If you know Kodungaiyur, you know it gets incredibly hot here, so we stay busy peeling fruit and running the blenders. The noise from the machines can be a lot, especially when we have three of them going at once. We buy our oranges and watermelons from the big market early in the morning before the sun gets too high. The shop is small and the counters are always a bit sticky no matter how much we wipe them down with a cloth. We don't have fancy seating, just a couple of plastic stools for people who can't wait to drink their juice. Sometimes we run out of ice by 4 PM and have to send the boy down the street to get more. My hands are usually stained with fruit juice by the end of the shift. We have a ceiling fan that squeaks, but it moves the air enough to keep us from melting. We don't have a menu with pictures or anything like that. We just tell people what we have for the day. It’s a simple business. We deal with the fruit, the customers, and the heat every single day. We’ve been here for a while and most people in the neighborhood know our faces. It's not glamorous, but it’s what we do to get by. We just focus on keeping the fruit fresh.