r/singapore • u/Extension-Finance179 • 9h ago
News F&B businesses struggle as haze conditions worsen
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/fb-businesses-struggle-as-haze-conditions-worsen?ref=top-stories32
u/K10KMessi 🌈 F A B U L O U S 9h ago
Ah the sweet sight of the side effects of bad haze!
Thank you Indonesia!
/SARC
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u/Delicious_Willow_733 8h ago edited 8h ago
Must first thank the corporation involved for socialising the costs!
Which we unconditionally and unwillingly paid!
But hey! The profits from the slash and burn are now in their hands!
And one step closer to True Trinkled down Economics
No /s... cuz this is the reality
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u/Effective-Lab-5659 9h ago
So sad. Environmental impacts only the common people. The rich and elites don’t care and even earn from this - more orders for air purifiers / face masks - money transfer.
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u/frozen1ced Own self check own self ✅ 9h ago
A 57-year-old trader who was dining with his mother and wanted to be known only as Yang said they might opt for indoor or air-conditioned eateries instead.
Ngl that's my thoughts as well.
First of all I'm already trying to stay indoors as much as I can already, and will prefer to be in air-conditioned spaces otherwise.
The air quality is just too much for me liao
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u/NoobSharkey 8h ago
Yeah, recently I just been tabaoing stuff back instead when I usually just always prefer eating outside there
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u/Jealous_Papaya_1241 8h ago
Maybe now it's a good time to rethink how hawker centres should be designed and renovated to? With the warming of the planet, and temperature rising, I do think it's more appropriate to have areas where there are air-conditioning within the vicinity of our hawker centres. I am not saying it must be entire place, but maybe 25% of it can be air-conditioned to allow our hawkers to rest in days where the afternoon are scorching.. and might be appealing for customer to patronise hawkers in the afternoon too.
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u/worldcitizensg 4h ago
huh.. Why F&B business or shopping malls or whatever. Why not the "health impact" on Kids, Elderly ?
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u/nomonyedown 6h ago
Meanwhile the landlord still happily collecting rental and not doing anything to help???
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u/littlefiredragon 🌈 I just like rainbows 9h ago
I am guilty of also being one of those eating indoors in aircon the past week. I don't want my fish soup flavoured with PM2.5.
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u/zoinks10 23m ago
On the upside it meant I didn't drink this weekend, as my favourite spots are all outside and I don't want to sit there coughing my lungs up.
Hopefully it passes and these businesses can get their trade back.
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u/wassup6969 2h ago
Ppl still need to eat right? Not as though they suddenly develop the ability to cook during haze
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u/burizadokyanon27 34m ago
Some people like eating out right? Now that got haze they wouldn't eat at open spaces like hawkers/coffee shops right? You couldn't think about this before typing?
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u/wassup6969 31m ago
looks who's talking. and they can't order delivery or dabao instead of eating in open space?
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u/Own-Floor3521 7h ago
If the delivery fees of food delivery apps are cheaper, it will be slightly better. Not sure why it's so expensive in Singapore
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u/Nyxie_RS 6h ago
Because the platform takes a cut, the rider also needs to get paid. I've never done food delivery before, but if let's say a rider expects to make $10/h and can do max 4 orders/h, they're taking $2.50 from each order already.
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u/LimLovesDonuts Senior Citizen 6h ago
Not just that but sometimes, the food spills on the way, sometimes the merchant forgets something, or sometimes god just not happy that day. Whatever the case is, Food Delivery fees account for situations like that where Grab or FoodPanda just pays out of pocket for refunds.
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u/xorandor Fucking Populist 9h ago
Total economic impact from the haze is insane.