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Thursday 22 August 2013

Introducer in Cafe

Our branch is situated in a commercial area dominated by offices but a few shops & eateries are also there. In the basement of adjoining building, there is a restaurant called The Village. 

Internal decoration of the cafe has been done on the pattern of an Indian village. Cane chairs & tables are there with bamboo-hut like ceilings. Partitions in between tables are also of bamboos. Number of photos depicting rural life & lush green fields have been hung on the walls. Even waiters are dressed as farmers with turbans & waistbands etc. In low & dim light, soft filmy music is played & it is difficult to make out faces of couples necking & petting each other through the bamboo screens.

Some time back the owner of the cafe started live dance shows from 6 to 7 in the evening. Ticket was costly of course which included coffee or a cold drink on complimentary basis. If you could tip the waiter appropriately before the show he would make your cold drink a good cocktail with Vodka or some such.

Manohar Narula aka Mannu who is an officer & a bachelor on rolls of our branch was among the first audience of first show. You know Mannu has a flair for liaison with such establishments. Always dressed in fine clothes he loves costly perfumes. Mannu came first with breaking news. He said that the shows are getting great response & in fact there is a business opportunity here for a banker. 

Now Mannu was close to our boss. He must have informed the developments to our boss the General Manager. Who knows he might even have sent complimentary passes of the show to the boss as well. Meantime he managed to open several accounts related to the cafe & staff working there. Sales proceeds started coming to the bank accounts. He even managed  to introduce & open fixed deposits in the names of two dancers Ms Lolo & Ms Lily. Our Mannu is really a good public relations man. 

The evening dance show was booming & crowds swelled everyday. But how can a growing business like this one be tolerated by police? One fine day there was this news that the cafe has been raided by police. During the raid they found inter-alia, a few fixed deposit receipts in the names of Ms Lolo & Ms Lily the dancers. It was also rumoured that Ms. Lolo & Ms. Lily were actually having different real names & that they were from other countries. 

Ready for the show!

The police was looking for the person who introduced the accounts of the dancers in the bank. 

In case you are planning to watch the evening show tonight on complementary pass, better cancel the program! 

   

1 comment:

Harsh Wardhan Jog said...

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