Saraswati Juice Centre

Our shop, Saraswati Juice Centre, is located right on Lawrence Road in Thirupapuliyur. It is a busy street and there is always something going on outside our door. We spend a lot of our time cutting up fruit and making sure the stall is ready for whoever walks by. Thirupapuliyur can get quite crowded, especially during the middle of the day when the sun is out. We don’t have any fancy signs or a big marketing budget. Most of the people who come to see us are just locals living nearby or workers who are passing through Lawrence Road. We try to keep the place as clean as we can, but it gets dusty with all the traffic. You can usually hear the sound of the traffic and people talking while we work. It’s a small operation here. We handle the deliveries of fruit in the morning and then stay open until the evening. Sometimes the neighbors stop by just to chat for a minute while we are busy. It’s a very normal, everyday kind of place. We don’t pretend to be anything more than a juice centre on a busy road. Dealing with the heat and the crowd is just part of the job. We have been at this location for a while and we know the rhythms of the street pretty well by now. We just focus on getting through the day and keeping the counter wiped down.