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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->AFTER reading the report yesterday, 'Rojak stall given 'C' grade for hygiene in Dec', I suggest that the authorities implement a firmer ruling on cleanliness.
All hawker stalls should have an 'A' grade before they are allowed to operate. Any grade lower is an insult to customers who deserve better when they patronise stalls.
I have seen many hawkers and coffee shops with hygiene standards worse than those in public toilets.
If that is the case, how can customers feel safe patronising such stalls?
I recently visited a bak kut teh store near Upper Boon Keng Road. I was furious when the cook smoked a cigarette beside his stall. I told myself I would never go there again.
The authorities should fine and suspend hawkers who allow stall assistants, cooks or customers to smoke in no-smoking areas.
In fact, hawker centres and coffee shops should be smoke-free as cigarette smoke and the food we consume are not exactly a healthy combination.
One can never take a firm enough stand on hygiene and public health safeguards in hawker centres and coffee shops. Ace Kindred Cheong
Then no who will pay for the shortfall in rental? Who will pay for my long-term investment? U? *chey*
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->AFTER reading the report yesterday, 'Rojak stall given 'C' grade for hygiene in Dec', I suggest that the authorities implement a firmer ruling on cleanliness.
All hawker stalls should have an 'A' grade before they are allowed to operate. Any grade lower is an insult to customers who deserve better when they patronise stalls.
I have seen many hawkers and coffee shops with hygiene standards worse than those in public toilets.
If that is the case, how can customers feel safe patronising such stalls?
I recently visited a bak kut teh store near Upper Boon Keng Road. I was furious when the cook smoked a cigarette beside his stall. I told myself I would never go there again.
The authorities should fine and suspend hawkers who allow stall assistants, cooks or customers to smoke in no-smoking areas.
In fact, hawker centres and coffee shops should be smoke-free as cigarette smoke and the food we consume are not exactly a healthy combination.
One can never take a firm enough stand on hygiene and public health safeguards in hawker centres and coffee shops. Ace Kindred Cheong
Then no who will pay for the shortfall in rental? Who will pay for my long-term investment? U? *chey*
