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Paying just 3k for cooking? If true, that’s way too low and sounds like exploitation. In Chennai, even a year before, the ‘nominal’ rate for a cook (for cooking one meal and a simple b.fast or dinner) was minimum 9k..most good ones demand more. Our cook, who was taking 10k plus, wanted 15k and stopped coming!
Paying just 3k for cooking? If true, that’s way too low and sounds like exploitation. In Chennai, even a year before, the ‘nominal’ rate for a cook (for cooking one meal and a simple b.fast or dinner) was minimum 9k..most good ones demand more. Our cook, who was taking 10k plus, wanted 15k and stopped coming!