Restaurant-Bar bandh sees many participants

The bar-restaurant bandh saw several city restaurants closed on Monday. Restaurateurs are protesting against the high increase in taxes levied on all partly and fully air-conditioned restaurants. 

"The high taxes are a big nuisance and we want the rates to go down. Although it hasn't really had an effect on the number of customers, we are getting a lot of complaints, which is not good for our restaurant," said manager, China Valley in Prabhadevi.  

Restaurants like Yoko Sizzlers at Fort, Global Fusion at Bandra, Gaylords and Indian Summer at Churchgate were closed to show their support to the bandh. Along with this, many malls were closed for the first half of the day and open only in the evening.

Tweets on the bandh-:

Sunday was more like Bandh-day! Paani bandh, Malls bandh, Petrol pumps bandh! Tomorrow- Hotels&Restaurants bandh! BANDH KARO YE #BANDH!! :S
-Ritika Armani

Restaurants all over India are observing a bandh tomorrow i.e 29/04/2013. Please carry your dabbas ;) #bandh #29april
-Aman Khera

As the bandh continues, roadside food stalls, vada-pavs sellers, chaat and sandwich wallas continue to have their fair share of customers.