Page 27 - Two Wise Men - Stories for Children Inspired from the Wit and Wisdom of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger by Vishal Khandelwal (z-lib.org)

The Two New Restaurants in Town

Being ambitious, they had decided to set up two branches
right at the beginning.

Their restaurants were located a few meters apart from
each other on the same road near two busy bus stops,
where they served breakfast like hot poha, idli and dosa,
upma and bread and omelette to early morning travellers
and others.

As they walked together on this winter morning towards
their restaurants, Mohan talked to Gopal about convincing
his parents to move to Lucknow from Bikaner. For a year
now, he had got up every morning at 4.00 am to prepare
the items needed for making the food himself and take
them to the restaurant.

Gopal, on the other hand, did not feel the need to do so.
He had told Mohan he would employ someone to do the
early morning preparations and would join him at 6.00 am
to leave for their restaurants. They both lived together in
the same apartment.

At the restaurant, Gopal had three other people working
for him. Gopal would tell them what to do, and go over to
Mohan’s to watch TV that Mohan had installed for his co-
workers when they took a break.

Gopal would head to his branch only at noon, when at
Mohan’s branch, everyone would finish their work and go

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