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The Two New Restaurants in Town

He also shared a good relationship with his co-workers
and always discussed everything with them about
running the restaurant. He would not only feed the
animals around his compound, he would also carefully
plan how much to cook every day, so that there was
minimal wastage of food.

All these qualities had helped him achieve his dream of
putting up a restaurant and running it well enough to start
earning profits from it. That he had managed to start
earning well from it in the very first year was by no means
a small feat. But he was worried for his cousin brother.

In contrast, Gopal would sometimes disappear from his
restaurant even in the evenings to entertain himself with
people from the neighbourhood, who he called his ‘new
brothers’. He left it upon his workers to run the place by
themselves. When they would not show up for work, he
would complain to Mohan and get irritated with them.

He would always tell Mohan to not make his workers get
used to him at the restaurant, after all, they had to set up
more places as early as possible. Whatever extra money
Gopal made, he spent on his evening outings with the
people in his colony.

Mohan tried to tell him to spend less on going out, if he
wanted to invest in opening more branches. But Gopal
was sure he could make more money to do so. He would

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