Restaurateur
Saveliy Libkin

The first and the second part were posted earlier.

• Part 1
• Part 2

Now it is difficult to imagine how exactly famous greengrocer’s gradually turned into the restaurant, earlier into one then into another. But the beginning of everything was department of Pan-Pizza where that times Sasha and Olya have baked and sold hundreds pizza by slices per day. Then, a little bit later, the department has been increased and it has occupied about 50 meters of the room.

Then Sofia Akopovna offered to open a confectioner’s in the neighbourhood and in one month the first tables and chairs appeared in the premises of greengrocer’s. The first old ladies who have been interested on what, in fact, grounds beetroot and carrot are sold now in 10 meters from usual place have appeared also. Sofia Akopovna was an excellent confectioner and everyone have got used fast enough to the fact that instead of huge baskets with cabbage, cucumbers and potatoes have appeared showcases with a few tens of various cream puffs, petit fours, tartlets which were packed in Italian paper and Italian boxes. Then Sofia Akopovna decided that it is impossible to find better name then Sofia for this department and she ordered bulky enough sign with her own name.

And then Raya has appeared. Everything that has taken place in the department can be divided into two epochs: before and after Raya. So, first of all Raya has notified all employers and later all guests then soon she depart to America with a certain former Mish and now Michael and that her  part is only to help to organize and establish an excellent service fast. But Raya have heard about service rather from Michael who have leaved already 4 years in Brooklyn and who came to stay for a while with use in Odessa. Raya and Sofia Akopovna have drunk espresso with chocolate truffles often and discussed how difficult to teach Ukrainians service about which one of them has knows something from Steamship Company and another from Michael’s stories.

Meanwhile, Sasha turned into Aleksandr gradually and started to lead everything confidently enough and in that way that Raya has been sure that her decisions lead to such significant changes. Sure the greater part of a day Raya has spent at the department telling about what exactly scoundrel turned out to be Misha when he departed to his Brooklyn and didn’t introduced Raya to his parents. Nature abhors a vacuum and after Misha was Marik, then Robik also former resident of Odessa but this time from Germany. Why exatly Raya has got into emigrants’ nets? It seemed that one could tell that Raya is a beauty only in the darkness. I an telling about complete country darkness. But her constant failures to mention something and broad hints have abbled even experienced local machos. At one moment she tells about first opening at Viena opera house where she hasn’t been ever, at another moment she tells about fashionable among the emigrants restaurant at Brighton about which Misha told her. In short Raya was an expert at making impression.  At that, in principle, Raya has been agreed to get even modest local man but officially she looked only for well-to-do foreigner.

True, in a month or a little bit earlier, when an opportunity presented itself, it has turned out that these «foreigners» counted rather on her fortune then on her passion just like Raya also. About her every new man Raya told confidently to all her friends in the way that everyone was sure it is time for Raya to find a substitute urgently. With time the main subject of the shop in next Monday began the discussion of next Raya’s husband. By then the department has increased by more 30-40 meters thanks to efforts of Aleksandr. Vegetables have stepped back slowly. Raya has stopped to hope. Sasha has bought a motorbike and led Olya to registry officeс. A wedding dress and a veil were present. Then Olya grew plump a little either because of pregnancy or because of pasty with chocolate icing and has quit. Sasha began to pay court to new shop girl from Tiraspol who was also not a beauty but still…

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