In Mumbai, media reports say up to a fifth of hotels and restaurants are already fully or partly shut as commercial LPG supplies tighten. In the southern cities of Bengaluru and Chennai, some eateries say their gas stocks have dwindled with little backup. “We can only make coffee and nothing else – it is nothing less than pathetic. Businesses are going to suffer,” says Haroon Sait, who runs an artisan bakery and restaurant chain in Bengaluru.
