KF Seetoh says that the bidding process is what keeps hawker rental high, “Desperation n greed creeps in naturally”

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Makansutra founder KF Seetoh took to social media on Monday (Nov 14) calling out the bidding course of used to resolve hawker rental charges.

In a Fb put up, he wrote: “It’s not the hawkers fault they bid excessive charges for a stall. It’s the Bid idea”.

He mentioned that the federal government builds hawker centres with public funds to guard micro meals enterprise operators and “to maintain costs as little as doable to feed the plenty”.

Nevertheless, he added that the hawkers are then made to bid for stalls and are instructed to maintain menu costs low. “Desperation n greed creeps in naturally. Everybody needs a stall of their favorite centres. It simply doesn’t add up. Main head scatch. Everybody must earn money on this unsure occasions..together with hawkers. They owe you nothing however their arduous work n craft”, he wrote.

Mr Seetoh referred to as for the bidding course of to be carried out away with. He requested for truthful rental charges to be supplied and given to probably the most deserving ones based mostly on “menu, expertise and preservation of our meals tradition”.

Alongside together with his put up, he shared a screenshot of a Nov 11 article titled ‘Exodus of 15 hawker stalls at Amoy Avenue Meals Centre, excessive rental bids cited as important cause’.

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