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Help Ritu restart a roadside café in Mumbai after a long illness and repossession
A roadside café in Mumbai needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after a long illness and repossession.
🇮🇳 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India700 views
For three years I have run a roadside café in Mumbai. In April, a long illness and repossession took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Sunday, and I employed 2 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 10 weeks.
This business pays my children's school fees and rent. I have already started working from home in small ways, but I can't meet orders without proper equipment.
Every contribution brings me closer to reopening, and I promise to post photos as I buy each item.
I'll buy equipment from local suppliers and post photos and receipts as I go.
Where the $450 goes:
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $210
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $105
• Shop repairs and licensing: $60
• Working capital for the first month: $75
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Ritu
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Hang in there, Ritu. Hope you get there. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Thinking of Mumbai
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Ritu.
Sure. The biggest one is replacing an espresso machine and grinder, $210. The rest is in the list at the bottom of the post and I'll upload receipts as I pay each one. Thanks, that means a lot.
Sending love, Ritu. I hope things turn around soon
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Put this on a community board in Envigado this morning. Love from Envigado.
Your post was clear and honest. I went through something like this 7 years ago and strangers helped me out. Thinking of Mumbai.
Thinking of you, Ritu. Gave what I could, wish it was more. God bless.