Sozha Hotel

Sozha Hotel has been sitting here on Tadaagam road for a while now. We are right by Gandhi park in Coimbatore, so there is always a lot of movement outside our doors. The morning starts early, usually before the sun is even up, because there is so much prep work to do. You can hear the buses going past and the sounds of the park waking up while we are setting things out for the first customers. It’s a busy corner of the city. We have a small staff and most of them have lived in this neighborhood their whole lives. The interior isn’t anything like those big modern places you see in the malls. It’s simple, with chairs that have seen better days but are still sturdy enough. We focus on getting things done right. Sometimes the lunch rush gets so crowded that people have to wait a bit, but nobody seems to mind too much. We talk to the regulars about their families while they eat. It feels more like a big kitchen than a formal business sometimes. We deal with the usual stuff, like the water supply being finicky or the power going out during a storm. We just light some candles and keep moving. It’s honest work and it keeps us busy from dawn until we lock up at night. We don't bother with much fancy talk, we just keep the doors open and the food coming.