The newly opened FeastHouse at 7 Halfway Plaza
For folks travelling from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh, particularly to Vijayawada, a pit cease at 7 Halfway Plaza at Suryapet is a should. It was first established in 2009 with the purpose of offering hygienic restrooms on NH-65. Why Suryapet? Raj Yarlagadda, chairman of Individuals’s Mix, which is energetic within the service sector, narrates a childhood reminiscence: “The journey time by bus from my village at Nujiveedu to Vijayawada was 60 minutes. The bus would cease halfwayfor soda, water, cool drinks and so forth. So after we, as a firm, noticed the dearth of hygienic relaxation rooms on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada freeway, we selected Suryapet as a result of it’s precisely halfway. Initially, our focus was on washrooms, meals was secondary.”
Inside 7Midway plaza
What’s in a reputation
7 Halfway Plaza was named to seize the eyeballs of travellers. Raj says, “Once we began the plaza, there have been no velocity weapons. Individuals driving at over 100 km velocity on the freeway gained’t be capable of learn something lengthy and wordy. A single quantity ‘7’ was determined to seize folks’s consideration, to make it simple for everybody to learn and bear in mind.”
Constructed over 40,000 sq. toes, 7 Halfway Plaza has advanced to incorporate coated parking and EV charging stations. It has additionally turn into a spot the place households break their highway journeys for breakfast or lunch. The menu, which has modified over time, consists of breakfast (open until 11 am) comprising common specials resembling masala dosa, pesarattu, upma, puri and idli.
Srinivas Dasari, Director and CEO of seven Freeway Plaza
Director and CEO of seven Halfway Plaza, Srinivas Dasari, provides, “Because it drew extra prospects to make use of the restrooms and seize a lightweight breakfast or lunch, we couldn’t take a look at meals as a secondary factor. We labored on the menu with meals consultants and cooks to supply all kinds. The thought was to have the ability to cater to all age teams.”
The staff works with the precept of three ‘R’s — Refresh-Recharge-Restart, says Raj. Guests are sometimes shocked on the clear bogs and handwash areas. Srinivas says, “Sitting lengthy hours in a automobile will be tiresome. The workers is educated to be cordial in order that when friends proceed their highway journey, they’re completely satisfied in regards to the break and no matter refreshment they’ve. To cater to the cross-section of shoppers by way of age, now we have a pizza place, a fried hen outlet, a world espresso outlet and a sweet retailer. “
The meal at Feast
Raj Yarlagadda, chairman of Individuals’s Mix
The 7 restaurant serves south Indian meals combos resembling ragi mudda with hen curry, appam with stew and kodi palav with vankaya kura, other than all-day breakfast dishes resembling idli, dosa, vada, bonda and so forth. To supply a extra elaborate meal, the corporate began Feast Home within the plaza.
Feast Home presents a South Indian unfold of 39 festive and homely dishes, all served on a banana leaf. The meal begins with conventional delicacies like boorelu, mini uttapam, adopted by pink rice dosa, totally different flavoured rice, dals, vegetable curries and varied kind of chutneys. There may be additionally a particular non-vegetarian sampler thali that features curries, fries and a biryani. The tasty meals aside, it’s the hospitality of the ladies serving workers that make a diner smile; they not solely inform the diner of the title of the dish but additionally briefly clarify what every merchandise, particularly the pachchadis, are made from.
All in all, 7 Halfway Plaza is a spot you might be glad to cease by.