{"id":679,"date":"2017-10-08T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=679"},"modified":"2017-10-09T01:26:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T22:26:16","slug":"yemeni-american-visited-enterprise-the-home-meals-in-sanaa-adnan-jumman-his-war-story-from-the-drawing-room-to-the-cafeteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/yemeni-american-visited-enterprise-the-home-meals-in-sanaa-adnan-jumman-his-war-story-from-the-drawing-room-to-the-cafeteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Adnan Jumman:\u00a0 His War Story From the Drawing Room\u00a0 to the Cafeteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sana\u2019a:\u00a0 Special to Yemeni-American Ahmed Al-Aghbari<\/strong><\/p>\n

English Edition by Hassan Al-Haifi<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The name, Home Food, is not just the name of a small cafeteria in Sana\u2019a.\u00a0 Home Food is the Yemeni tale of a an artist and his wife.\u00a0 Both of these struggling Yemenis engaged in a battle for a life of dignity against poverty.\u00a0 After the government salaries ceased coming and living conditions became more challenging due to the ongoing war in Yemen now for nearly 2 \u00bd years, it was essential for this man and his wife to seek a new livelihood in order to save their family.\u00a0 Thus they had to find a new way of providing for their family to earn an honest living.\u00a0 So they pursued the course of earning a living the hard way, which took them from the drawing room, where the husband used to earn his living, to the kitchen of the artist\u2019s wife.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus a new cafeteria was born.<\/p>\n

Soon brought hardships on everyone in the country, as it takes the lives of many Yemenis and constrains after the launching of this new enterprise, became a shining beacon of light amidst the tragedy unfolding in Yemen as a result of the dreaded war, which has their capacities.<\/p>\n

The War in Yemen has caused the fatality of over 10,000 Yemeni civilians, most of whom are women and children, as well as the destruction of most of the functioning capacity of the infrastructure, bringing with it the risk of hunger and the spread of diseases and illnesses, highlighted by severe malnutrition, cholera, which in its second wave has brought on the death of nearly 2,000 victims and has afflicted nearly half a million Yemenis throughout Yemen up to now.\u00a0 These tragic indicators have never been experienced by any country in the world in this century.\u00a0 The numbers of suffering citizens of Yemen have caused international rights organizations to raise their voices lately and they have declared Yemen to be the severest tragedy facing the world today.\u00a0\u00a0 Despite all these frightening signs, international centers of effective decision making remain untouched by the cries of suffering Yemenis or by witnessing the bloodshed in the poorest country of the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Adnan Jumman \u2013 perhaps one of two cartoonists known in Yemen \u2013 has spent four decades with his pens and paint brushes and colors.\u00a0 He never thought that\u00a0 the day would ever come that he would ever have to abandon his drawing boards and word with his wife in a new vocation such as food catering to secure the sustenance needs of his family.\u00a0 After all this is a stage in the history of Yemen where all means of livelihood have become impaired by the ongoing was in his country, which is now tied up in a regional conflict on its own turf and by its own local combatants.<\/p>\n

The war has closed all avenues for earning a living by the product of his drawing boards and his artistic skills, as a fine artist and a master of graphics, and the needs of life unattainable, as is the case of all his fellow Yemenis to the point of being even unable to meet the rents due on his accommodation and the costs of other essentials of life for his family.\u00a0 Adnan needed to move on to a new and honest\u00a0 vocation that will save his family from privation.\u00a0 He finally settled on beginning an enterprise which centered on his wife cooking\u00a0 a daily meal in his own kitchen, as his wife was a well known culinary artist, especially cooking\u00a0 Adenese food.\u00a0 Adnan went to work on his project with care and diligence and overcame all his fears and apprehensions.\u00a0 He was innovative in the promotion of his project by setting up a facebook page in his former timeline named after his project, which he called \u201cHome Food\u201d.\u00a0 The name had\u00a0 implications:<\/p>\n

First, the food implied home cooked meals with the cleanliness of a family home kitchen, and it also implied a unique taste and flavor associated with food from Aden.\u00a0 That is how Adnan described his novel enterprise.<\/p>\n

The enterprise adopted a whole different system.\u00a0 The cafeteria had a weekly schedule, which\u00a0 was published electronically, of the foods served during the week, with each day having a different meal, and showing the price and details of the meals.\u00a0 Anyone who wishes to be served the meal of the day can just call to state the meal he wants and by Noon can come to pick up his\/her order accordingly from Adnan\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

When the project was launched, initial costs did not exceed $200, which he borrowed to buy utensils and other needs.\u00a0 Maybe the cost of raw materials for the first day\u2019s scheduled meal.<\/p>\n

The project was a success from the first day.\u00a0\u00a0 As demand increased with the passage of time, the space in his kitchen was inadequate to meet increased demand.\u00a0 He had to expand to a new small cafeteria outside his home.\u00a0 This entailed additional capital and start-up costs and thus Adnan faced problem of securing financing for the new expansion outside his home.\u00a0 He said that he was able to overcome the funding problem by borrowing from one of his friends who lent him YR 1 million.\u00a0 Thus Adnan successfully launched his Home Meal Enterprise to a new small restaurant, with a ground floor premises in a building in a street branching out of Hadda Street.<\/p>\n

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With this move, Adnan faced two new challenges:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The one meal a day regime was not compatible to restaurants usually serving a variety of meals.\u00a0 Then he had the problem of having to compete with a large number of high class restaurants all around his humble catering enterprise. He crossed his fingers and was ready to take on all these challenges.<\/p>\n

Two months after having launched his expansion project Y-A came to visit Adnan after his new enterprise settled into a success as well.\u00a0 Adnan had now regained his former smile\u00a0 after overcoming all the\u00a0 challenges.<\/p>\n

Adnan says that this is due to the cleanliness of his restaurant and the fine Adeni food cooked by his wife, who now had two women helping her to prepare the daily set meal.\u00a0 His job was to provide for all the needs of the kitchen and supervise the service\u00a0 to the customers in the eating hall assisted by an assistant.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the hard work, Adnan and his wife are happy at the end of the day with the proceeds generated by their enterprise.<\/p>\n

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