It is business on V-Day

Privacy being a major issue with increasing population, apart from gardens and restaurants "� Cyber Cafés and ice-cream joints have become one of the happening places on Valentine's day among the GenNext customers in Rajkot, city is having the so-called image of being 'Very Traditional'.

"They are ready to pay upto Rs 50 per hour for availing privacy," says Vinod Patel, cyber café owner. Here the coupls can avail private cabin, adds Patel.

Targetting Valentines' Day crowd, majority of restaurants and fast food parlours across the city have announced schemes for couples and received overwhleming response, "Its amazing that we are packed for the evening. As soon as we gave ads of programmes, we went housefull in just two days, we had to withdraw the ads," explains Ketan Chotai, restaurant owner from city.

Even those who haven't bothered to announce such schemes, have also received tremendeous response with requests for advance booking, "We generally have rush on such occassions, but we never expected such a response," says Narendra Thakker, ice cream joint owner on University Road.

Not only college going crowd anxious but even school children were seen flocking around these hotspots. Several teenagers were spotted around cyber café since morning. Florists, card shops, music shops, bakeries, choclate shops are witnessing a boom-time business in the city.