Baba Back To Dhaba After Restaurant Fails, Says Saved 20 Lakhs For Future

New Delhi:

Kanta Prasad, who made headlines final 12 months after a YouTuber revealed his grim monetary situation triggered by the coronavirus pandemic to the world, has shut down his Delhi restaurant that he had opened utilizing the donation cash. Motive: poor return on funding.

The Delhi resident, 80, is now working his well-known ‘Baba Ka Dhaba’ eatery within the nationwide capital’s Malviya Nagar.

“On an funding of Rs 1 lakh, we solely earned Rs 35,000, that’s the reason we shut it. I’m blissful working my previous eatery because the buyer footfall is sweet right here,” he was quoted as saying by information company ANI.

Folks from throughout the nation had made beneficiant donations to Kanta Prasad after the video – by which he tearfully talked concerning the lack of enterprise as a result of pandemic – went viral.

Mr Prasad, nonetheless, says that he’ll now run his Malviya Nagar eatery until he’s alive. He has additionally deliberate his retirement.

“I’ll run this dhaba until I’m alive. The day enterprise sees a droop, I’ll shut it. We have now saved Rs 20 lakh for me and my spouse from the cash we obtained final 12 months,” he added.

The humanitarian gesture had was a large controversy final 12 months after Kanta Prasad levelled allegations of economic misappropriation towards the YouTuber, Gaurav Wasan. The social media influencer had denied the fees.