Swamy Akuthota and his wife Padmaja will again be offering free meals on Christmas Day at their Satya restaurants.
It comes naturally for the Akuthota family to offer free meals on Christmas Day at all five branches of their Satya Indian restaurants in Auckland.
Now in its eighth year, Satya restaurants will be offering free meals to families who have had a rough year, stranded tourists, homeless people and
regular customers who make donations.
"There are no strings attached. We don't charge anything," says Samrudh Akuthota, whose parents opened their first Satya restaurant in Hobson St next door to the City Mission where they sometimes set up makeshift stands to cook for the poor.
Looking after your community and people around you is a philosophy passed down through the generations of the Akuthota family, who moved to New Zealand in 1996.
In an act of goodwill during the 2011 recession, Swamy Akuthota and his wife Padmaja offered free meals on Christmas Day, which has become an annual event for up to 1800 people.
