Preparations for opening Ammaji's Ayurvedic Restaurant keep me extremely busy!

A lot is going on here at the Ashram and I am busy every day from morning to evening, walking again and again to the restaurant and back to the Ashram’s main building. How come? We are closer to the day we are going to open Ammaji’s Ayurvedic Restaurant – and thus a lot of things are moving at quite a fast speed!

We have been working for months on our interior design and decoration, making wall claddings, furniture and ceilings out of bamboo ourselves, again and again checking with our bamboo workers, giving them new ideas, trying what works and what doesn’t. Yesterday, we hung the lights which will be above our tables, last night, our beautiful crockery finally arrived at the restaurant and today our store will receive its final touch so that we have lots of space for the supplies we soon need to buy.

Every day, we lead interviews with job applicants who want to work at our restaurant. Managers, accountants, cooks, store managers, waiters, cleaning personnel – there are a lot of posts to fill!

We are finalizing our menu, have installed software for the billing computer and are considering where to do advertisement. We go to Delhi again and again to buy things we need but had not thought of yet or which we had ordered and had to pick up ourselves.

Apart from that, the Ashram is running as usual with guests enjoying the Ayurveda and Yoga Weight Loss Retreat with massages and yoga. The school is in full swing as well, the kids starting prepare for the last months of the year. Oh yes, and of course our little Apra also needs our attention.

But all, the Ashram guests, school kids, Ashram boys and also Apra are looking forward to the opening of our restaurant. We, too, can hardly wait anymore – and of course I will let you know once the day is here. It won’t be long anymore!