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City of bachelors? to pay Rs 5 per roti
Five rupees will be the price of one roti (flatbread) at 3,000 roadside hotels across the city from Monday after owners decided they could not cope with the sky-high prices of flour.
Hotel owners have put up the announcement and are informing regular customers. ?During the recent violence in the city, the price of flour went up to eight rupees per kilogram,? explained Sardar Baz Khan, an office bearer of the Karachi Small Hotels Association who also runs one near Pakistan Chowk. The prices have not gone down with time and they were left with no choice. They make 10 rotis from one kilogram of flour. ?Right now, we buy a 1kg flour for up to Rs 30 and when you factor in labor, fuel and oil, it is really difficult for us to keep the old price ,? he said.
This price increase is likely to pinch the men who don?t eat or cook at home. Karachi is known as a ?city of bachelors? as they live alone, they mostly eat at the small hotels.
government didn?t check the quality of food, let along the prices. ?The most dangerous thing is their unhygienic conditions.These hotels cook food once a day and sell it round the clock and sometimes keep food and sell it the next day. There is nobody to ask what exactly they are cooking and what type of ghee or oil they are using.
Many people in the city have been waiting in lines for three days to buy flour which is being sold for Rs 16 per kg in under-stocked utility stores and Rs 35 in the open market.
Hotel owners have put up the announcement and are informing regular customers. ?During the recent violence in the city, the price of flour went up to eight rupees per kilogram,? explained Sardar Baz Khan, an office bearer of the Karachi Small Hotels Association who also runs one near Pakistan Chowk. The prices have not gone down with time and they were left with no choice. They make 10 rotis from one kilogram of flour. ?Right now, we buy a 1kg flour for up to Rs 30 and when you factor in labor, fuel and oil, it is really difficult for us to keep the old price ,? he said.
This price increase is likely to pinch the men who don?t eat or cook at home. Karachi is known as a ?city of bachelors? as they live alone, they mostly eat at the small hotels.
government didn?t check the quality of food, let along the prices. ?The most dangerous thing is their unhygienic conditions.These hotels cook food once a day and sell it round the clock and sometimes keep food and sell it the next day. There is nobody to ask what exactly they are cooking and what type of ghee or oil they are using.
Many people in the city have been waiting in lines for three days to buy flour which is being sold for Rs 16 per kg in under-stocked utility stores and Rs 35 in the open market.