Lr Sarbath Company

Lr Sarbath Company is down at 19, Kollavadugar Lane, on Rani Street. It is one of those narrow lanes where everyone knows everyone else. We have been here for a good while, making our drinks in the back room. The floors can get a little sticky when we are mixing the syrups, so we are always washing them down with buckets of water. The air inside always smells like sugar and fruit extracts. We have rows and rows of glass bottles waiting to be filled. It is mostly manual work, from washing the bottles to sticking the labels on. We don’t have fancy automated machines, just a few reliable ones that have been with us for years. The light comes in through a small window near the ceiling, so it stays a bit dim inside even during the middle of the day. In the summer, the lane outside gets very busy with people looking for something cold to drink. We keep our supplies stacked against the brick walls. Sometimes the delivery carts have a hard time getting through the lane because of the parked scooters, but we manage somehow. It is a small operation with just a handful of us working together. We usually have the radio playing softly in the background while we work. It’s not a complicated business, just a lot of boiling, cooling, and bottling. We close the heavy wooden doors once the sun goes down and the street gets quiet.