The iconic Matunga landmark — Mani's Lunch Home — has downed its shutters from yesterday after a memorable 14-year innings.

The entrance of Mani's Lunch Home. Pics/Satej Shinde

The building it is housed in, Model Co-operative Hostel Society Ltd, will be redeveloped so it is pack-up time for Mani's, hopefully temporarily.

The 75-seater restaurant was devoid of its strictly functional chairs and tables when we visited it yesterday evening. Some of the 40 workers employed at the establishment they call "home", were sleeping on the floor or on tables.