Just a word of warning.
When you see staff wearing uniform,shapeless collared T-shirts all of a sudden (if they didn't wear them the last time you saw them) or if they look like an army of workers(can be busy,can be swatting flies),for example like at these places below....
Reason is they could have been bought over or have a new management team in place.This equals to a dining experience that would edge you closer to cavorting with the denizens of food hell.
Where's the connection between the two you ask?Well consider this.
T-shirts are one of the cheapest uniform available on the planet.
T-shirts are also the number one choice of attire most favoured by 3 breeds of cheapskate bosses.
1) The first are The Takeovers.These are totally cannot cook locals that have the cash to buy out existing outlets and come inbuilt with a grand plan for fleecing customers with the most chialat quality ingredients with no regard for freshness and taste due to the 'great' reputation of their recently acquired outlet having countless mentions in a wave of 'where to eat' guidebooks.
2) The second The Singaporean entrepreneurs.
These specialize in starting new foodcourt and hawker concepts and maintain an authoritarian LKY relation with traders under their wings.They are not only content with having to force staff into such tastelessly loose and sweat accentuating,smell accumulating, uncomfortably ugly togs,they also have the gall to demand payment for a specified amount of uniforms that hawkers MUST take.
Such a rude contrast to how in the beginning they so nicely invited and patiently coaxed potential lot takers .
This was one of the contributary factors that signalled the demise of one hawker place opposite Northam (bet you didn't know that did you?).
Not telling you about the rest of the story.Dig and you might find out more dirt yourself.
3) Third comes The Franchise holders.
Boy are they getting from bad to worse.Because they insist on cutting corners and ensuring staff loyalty by taking in foreign workers,misunderstandings and miscommunication between the lower management and foreigners are a daily affair which leads to us paying the price for their mistakes and their supervisors/managers pent up anger.
So never forget.....
See T-shirt brood , Get Bull shit food
When you see staff wearing uniform,shapeless collared T-shirts all of a sudden (if they didn't wear them the last time you saw them) or if they look like an army of workers(can be busy,can be swatting flies),for example like at these places below....
- Tong sui stall (night)@ Kimberley Street (now like longkang chooi flavoured with dishwashing liquid)
- See Kong Ooi @ transfer road (I vote this the 2nd most awful choo char outlet after that tg bungah place.they now serve exceptionally terrible food after wearing t-shirts)
- Thai Station @ Prangin Mall (bad,bad,bad,awful,awful,awful thai food)
- HK Wong Kok @ Prangin also(food quality,cleanliness and taste has degenerated to such a sham,staff picking on each other,counters like a filthy bachelors mess)
- Old Town White Coffee @ E-gate & 1st Avenue (bleaugh! spoilt chicken skin,cold spongy toasts)
- Manhattan Fish Market @ Gurney Plaza (now just as hopeless as their Queensbay mall outlet)
- "Cool Blog" bubble tea franchise @ Prangin (near S&J) (can fight with the worst Plus expressway teh tarik stall cos they use this recipe ratio : One ton of ice to One microbe of taste: Pfffttttt!!!)
Reason is they could have been bought over or have a new management team in place.This equals to a dining experience that would edge you closer to cavorting with the denizens of food hell.
Where's the connection between the two you ask?Well consider this.
T-shirts are one of the cheapest uniform available on the planet.
T-shirts are also the number one choice of attire most favoured by 3 breeds of cheapskate bosses.
1) The first are The Takeovers.These are totally cannot cook locals that have the cash to buy out existing outlets and come inbuilt with a grand plan for fleecing customers with the most chialat quality ingredients with no regard for freshness and taste due to the 'great' reputation of their recently acquired outlet having countless mentions in a wave of 'where to eat' guidebooks.
2) The second The Singaporean entrepreneurs.
These specialize in starting new foodcourt and hawker concepts and maintain an authoritarian LKY relation with traders under their wings.They are not only content with having to force staff into such tastelessly loose and sweat accentuating,smell accumulating, uncomfortably ugly togs,they also have the gall to demand payment for a specified amount of uniforms that hawkers MUST take.
Such a rude contrast to how in the beginning they so nicely invited and patiently coaxed potential lot takers .
This was one of the contributary factors that signalled the demise of one hawker place opposite Northam (bet you didn't know that did you?).
Not telling you about the rest of the story.Dig and you might find out more dirt yourself.
3) Third comes The Franchise holders.
Boy are they getting from bad to worse.Because they insist on cutting corners and ensuring staff loyalty by taking in foreign workers,misunderstandings and miscommunication between the lower management and foreigners are a daily affair which leads to us paying the price for their mistakes and their supervisors/managers pent up anger.
So never forget.....
See T-shirt brood , Get Bull shit food
