Indrani Fast Food

We’ve been running this fast food spot at 81 Rajdanga Nabapally for quite some time now. It’s right in the East Township area. Every morning starts the same way, with us pulling up the shutters and getting the stoves going. It’s not a big place, just a simple counter and some space for people to stand and eat. We get a lot of locals coming by after work. You can hear the oil sizzling and the knives hitting the chopping boards all evening. It gets hot in here, especially in the middle of summer, but we just keep at it. Sometimes the rain comes down hard on the roof and makes it hard to hear anything else. We don’t really have any fancy signs or big lights. Just the name on the front and the smell of the food. People know where we are. We see the same faces every week, mostly folks living nearby who don’t feel like cooking at home. It’s a bit cramped when the dinner rush hits around seven or eight. We try to get the orders out as they come, though sometimes there’s a wait. That’s just how it goes in a small kitchen. We don’t have a lot of help, so it’s usually just a couple of us doing everything from taking the money to cleaning the tables. It’s a living. We’ve seen the neighborhood change a bit over the years, but we’re still here at the same spot every day.