De­spite hav­ing a rob­bery at one of their out­lets, the man­age­ment of Pal­ki In­di­an Restau­rant says they are not dis­cour­aged by crim­i­nal­i­ty and vows to con­tin­ue busi­ness, serv­ing the pub­lic.

Po­lice said two men en­tered the busi­ness on Long Cir­cu­lar Road, around 12.30 pm on Wednes­day and hand­ed a note to a wait­ress.

Writ­ten on the note was a threat to the wait­ress and de­mands for her to hand over cash and valu­ables.

The ban­dits stole $1000 from the cash reg­is­ter which rep­re­sent­ed the day’s sales, two cell­phones and an Ap­ple iPad be­fore run­ning away.

Of­fi­cers of the St Clair CID were called in and viewed se­cu­ri­ty cam­era footage of the rob­bery.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment on Thurs­day, co-own­er one of the restau­rant’s co-own­ers Vashti Paray-Singh said the restau­rant was closed ear­ly on Wednes­day and Thurs­day to fa­cil­i­tate po­lice of­fi­cers as they con­tin­ued their in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Paray-Singh said the work­er was sent home ear­ly, not­ing that she had no prob­lem of­fer­ing coun­selling if she was trau­ma­tised.

“She did the cor­rect thing, by giv­ing them what she had to give them and com­ply­ing. The faster they leave the place it’s bet­ter for you.

“It’s 25 years we have these restau­rants and it makes you feel un­com­fort­able and a lit­tle wary of peo­ple now, but you don’t let these ex­pe­ri­ences bar you from do­ing busi­ness, be­cause you still have to deal with the pub­lic.”

Paray-Singh said she un­der­stood the trau­ma of crime as she her­self was robbed at gun­point years ago.

On Jan­u­ary 19, a man robbed a Ch­agua­nas mem­ber’s club when he passed a threat­en­ing note to an em­ploy­ee where he threat­ened to bomb the busi­ness­place if she did not give him the cash.