trichy this small eatery in palakkarai area serves only four varieties of snack items but they are a big hit among the people inippu sweet appam medu vadai masala vadai and samosa are the only items that the 31yearold syed ibrahim serves in his shop but all four are equally popularthe response for his food is such that though ibrahim plans to keep his shop open from 830am to 230pm sometimes he is forced to close it a couple of hours earlier because everything gets sold out by then the eatery serves around 100 customers on a daily basisibrahim who worked at a grocery shop for several years said that he had to start a snack stall out of compulsion i started a biryani stall a few years ago but since i used to sell mutton biryani for rs 130 many felt that it was costly for a small shop but i didnt want to reduce the rate and compromise on the quality he said ibrahim started to incur losses and he started the snack stall primarily to compensate for thathe zeroed in on serving vadai varieties samosas and appam because they were the easiest to prepare and required low investment once he started the eatery he made sure that all the items were sold at a relatively lower price so that he could attract more customers he said that he did not try to come up with anything special or unique but kept things simple and followed just conventional style of preparation theres no secret when it comes to cooking and i just go with the tried and tested formula i rather focus on all costcutting measures without having to compromise on the quality whatsoever he saidto reduce cost ibrahim made sure he made all the food items by himself without having to appoint anybody and he does not serve chutney or sambar to go along with vadais he said that medu vadai and inippu appam are the most soughtafter food items at his eatery when it comes to medu vadai people love the fact that i add powdered pepper at the time of making vadai batter many also said that my appams are really soft he saidall the four varieties are available at rs 5 apiece ibrahim said that most of the people who visit his eatery get snack items parcelled and have them as part of breakfast or lunch many of my loyal customers are unhappy even if i close my shop for a day this actually makes me feel proud he saidsometime ago ibrahim also started serving idli dosai and chapathi for dinner and said that the business was slowly picking up when asked if he had any plans of starting a restaurant ibrahim said there are a lot of bigger restaurants and eateries in my area i dont know if i can compete with them so ill just stick to what i do bestwhat inippu appam medu vada masala vada and samosawhere eda street