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# Restaurant staffed by trans team finds big success
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/restaurant-staffed-by-trans-team-finds-big-success/
- Published: 2020-09-16T10:28:07.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-16T08:29:25.000Z
- Description: The Covai Trans Kitchen in Coimbatore (India) has found major success since opening at the beginning of this month.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Food & Drink, News, Out & About, Queer Corner, Travel, Asia, India, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Asia, LGBTQ India, Trans inclusion, Trans Rights, Transgender

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The **Covai Trans Kitchen** in **Coimbatore (India)** has found major success since opening at the beginning of this month. The 32-seater restaurant aims to bring a greater level of trans inclusion into the local community, as every staff member identifies as trans. It has been so positively received that a second restaurant is [due](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-run-entirely-transgender-staff-233717554.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk) to be opened.

The idea was formed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as **Coimbatore District Transgender Association** president **Sangeetha** realised unemployment was rife in the trans community. Sangeetha, who has been running her own canteen for over 15 years, told the [Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/india/trans-kitchen-coimbatore-woos-diners-biryani-and-more-6588930/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) it was initially difficult to find a location for Covai Trans Kitchen, as many were hesitant to provide space for rent due to negative attitudes towards the trans community.

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However, the restaurant has been popular with local people. She continued ‘the public and local media have been very kind to us’ and said a second restaurant is due to open in six months. She hopes the second site will ‘provide more job opportunities’ for the trans community in India.