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The newest for fine food – Rodrigo’s Source:Island “A fleeting thought crystallized into the opening of our first outlet in August 2019. A thought which grew into introducing quality food with legendary flavours, maintaining the traditional standards – started by Thomas Rodrigo (1868-1945) and continued by Cyril Rodrigo and then by my father Devaka Rodrigo (1933-2015).” That was Chanaka Rodrigo speaking to me about his new food container café at Malalasekera Mawatha near the CR&FC grounds. I was meeting him and his wife Ranga, who moved away from her lucrative career in the textile business, to support her husband. Support she has given fully, and done much as Chanaka credits her with being the superlative planner. The Entrepreneurial Vision Chanaka confided that a sure sign of his new enterprise succeeding was that he was continuing the tradition of quality food at affordable prices which both his father, grandfather and great ...