Restaurateur
Saveliy Libkin

When I try to remember how everything has began appears desire to come again into small café with a few tired prostitutes where a few portions of coffee and sandwiches with something not much resembling food have been sold during one day. Also sometimes gloomy characters in light and sometimes even in white socks have sat there. Many years have passed and today walking by the façade sometimes through the windows of veranda I recognize the silhouettes of an old juice bar in the famous shop.

Just now a man of decent appearance whose name is Roman Yakovlevich left the restaurant. His spouse also visits this restaurant sometimes and she sits at veranda for a long time, examining children near local cow. He usually orders Caesar salad and a few shot glasses of vodka but only if he comes alone. If he comes with his spouse then a good food and a bottle of Chilean wine appear on the table. His spouse comes to the restaurant with her friends more often and then they also drink vodka with salmon tartar or with Caesar salad again. He orders steaks only if he comes with Vladimir Naumovich. He is also regular guest of the restaurant who sometimes talks to the waitress as if he waits for their approval and understanding for very modest tip. But he leaves the tip only if he comes with Roman Yakovlevich. If he comes alone he doesn’t do it. But then the spouse of Roman Yakovlevich leaves a huge tip but only when she comes alone and she leave it only to the most attractive waiter Grisha. Other waiters don’t come up to her. Also sometimes they come to the restaurant all together and then the size of tip doesn’t depend on the waiter’s look.

And also young enough businessmen whose name is Evgeniy settled down in the restaurant. On his table you can always see 17-inches laptop and several cell phones, a modem- it is obligatory, and false purse Monblan. He has watch Breguet but it is also false, he likes to examine the next princess when she go to lavatory. He orders food seldom but he likes very much to treat the spouse of his friend who often is in business trips by Italian Merlot. And the size of tip is doubled when his friend’s spouse looks at him with kinder gaze because of the next bottle of Merlot.

At the table near the entrance settled down the grandson of local businessman PV. I write abbreviation because this PV is very notorious person. It is he who doesn’t economize on food and tip. And nobody care about that this tip has rather illegal origin. The grandson of PV sometimes hit on the spouse of Roman Yakovlevich but only if he is very drunk. And PV often invites to his table the second wife of Vladimir Naumovich and he doesn’t hide and confused much. And why he must do it because she comes to the restaurant not only with him. And attractive Grisha became saucy after he was invited «to drink a cup of coffee» by to girls whose fathers in Kiev rule the world. You see, he imagined that he is the main lady-killer in spite of that the tip from Roman Yakovlevich’s spouse he spends solely to the small shows of affection to the daughter of his boss in the restaurant, who dinned that Grisha must be the administrator into her father’s ears.  But this is only beginning of 2002 year….

To be continued on Saturdays after 10:00 p. m

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