Restaurateur
Saveliy Libkin

You can read the beginning last Saturday:

Part 1

In 2003 city authorities have «allowed» to the townsmen to spend money on renewal of paving slab and respectively to use new surfacing for summer café. Plastic furniture has been sold at the seven km market like pastries with peas. One had to hire persons with higher education as waiters. At that time Elena Ivanovna has managed entrusted to her restaurant after her previous work at district committee with newspaper in her hands. A cup of coffee and a newspaper in general were as scepter and globe for her. She didn’t part with them even in the lavatory. Alena, who was a waitress at that time, after she has graduated language and literature department and language and literature department called her delicate enough old bitch. Elena Ivanovna has hold out two weeks. Then Alena made friends with one of the summer guests and in one month she gone to Denmrk with him to have a trial marriage trip. She is still there. Of course she has changed that man who helped her to come and see foreign country to another boyfriends but she still recollects her home only by Internet. Many girls have followed her successful example. To be more precise everyone has tried to do it and in summer the service became front-oriented. Even if the body didn’t allow much to flirt then a few bottles of wine, at that time it was imported from Georgia have done their part. To cut it short, just Alena has left the country but the staff liked the foreigners for a long time. 65 years old Frenchman Andre who became Andrusha at the instigation of his local brides have come to the restaurant every day  and have treated them every day and told them about how nice it is there at his home land. How he mixes beer with blackcurrant liqueur and how he eats year-round strawberry after champagne there. How near his native Alsace is to other different foreign names. But it was end in talk and in autumn Andre gone home alone. His brides with waitress have recollected for a long time his stories about casino in Baden-Baden and his cheap tip. From that time one of the brides liked corner table and she spent not one Saturday night sitting there with a cup of tea and foreign newspapers. But only local drunken man or guest workers from Moldova who introduced themselves as businessmen from Kishinev have show their interest. Once one of such businessmen have tried to pay for his bill with the help of discount card of the restaurant having assured the administrator Masha that the director of the restaurant gave him this card. In spite of that Masha also came from Transdniestria she has distinguished one card from another easily enough and if the guest didn’t has a discount then she often used her own card with hope for big tip. Masha was puzzled out only because of a guest’s avarice. Vladimir Naumovich bragged at another shift that Masha calculates his bills with discount… At that he bragged to his lady-love who did not fail to tell about it to the then director when they arranged small stand-up party.

Masha wasn’t fired but she was warned. With time discounts gained epidemic nature. The staff has been growing fat, the profitability has been falling. On the other hand at that time CO* didn’t look fixedly on the restaurants and they were busy with fundamental transactions-issues-projects. It was easy enough to operate even taking into account waiters’ forgetfulness. And that lady who has shared information soon became the spouse of administrator from another restaurant and stopped to visit the restaurant. Gradually Deribasovskaya Street has been selling to “friends”. Strangers have leased the premises and earned a little bit money. Everyone, including us who have taken a great interest in the words hospitality, empathy and culture were satisfied.

*control authorities

I will post the continuation next Saturday

• Part 3

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