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Foreign workers and PMETs are two different issues, the government keeps using this to defend their import of millions of PMETs into Singapore!
I know the real reason behind the closure, I ate at Lei Garden from 2007.. and stopped eating last 2 years. Why? The prices tripled!!! Even Crystal Jade which is the same grade is cheaper by 30% for the same food. The company used to eat every CNY lunch there, the bills tripled, so we decided to move to Crystal Jade.
The situation is for many years, wages remain stagnant. If meals are so damn expensive, who will dine there? And I personally saw the customers getting fewer and fewer, not because the food is bad but it is ridiculously expensive!! Look at Jumbo, it has been doing so well for so many years. Why? the prices are reasonable and affordable!!!
Lei Garden is following government style of relentless increase in prices and eventually no one can afford cars, HDBs and even hawkers anymore. Is that what the government wants???
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FT good, slaves even better: I am dismayed with this PAP minister who lamented the closure of Lei Gardens, jumping to his ministerial conclusion that Lei Garden closed because of lack of plentiful cheap labour.
My question to LSY is, “Is this the only reason why Lei Garden closed?”. What kind of half baked minister that takes LG’s excuse without verification. If he had checked, he will realize that LG close primarily because of the abundance of many other better restaurants for the price they are charging, AND they have to charge those prices primarily because of high rentals in Orchard Road AND finally, because Singapore is now facing an economic slowdown. It was simply too many premium restaurants chasing the same well heeled customers.
Off course restaurants that has been operating with plentiful cheap labour will now find it difficult to find enough experienced Singaporeans to fill the gap…because the “cheap FT” PAP policies of the last 10 years had driven Singaporeans away from F&B. Citizens can see how damaging PAP’s cheap FT policies have been when even a 5% reduction in DRC from 50% to 45% could cause Lei Gardens to close.
Has LSY has just shot PAP in the foot by exposng the aftermath of a horrendously damaging PAP FT policy OR is LSY echoing the greedy desires of restaurant owners by asking for a reinstatement of the DRC to 50%.
Why stop at 50%, might as well revive the slave trade. Slaves don’t get paid, that should boost the profits of Lei Gardens a thousandfold.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/07/11/the-real-reasons-why-lei-garden-is-closing/
I know the real reason behind the closure, I ate at Lei Garden from 2007.. and stopped eating last 2 years. Why? The prices tripled!!! Even Crystal Jade which is the same grade is cheaper by 30% for the same food. The company used to eat every CNY lunch there, the bills tripled, so we decided to move to Crystal Jade.
The situation is for many years, wages remain stagnant. If meals are so damn expensive, who will dine there? And I personally saw the customers getting fewer and fewer, not because the food is bad but it is ridiculously expensive!! Look at Jumbo, it has been doing so well for so many years. Why? the prices are reasonable and affordable!!!
Lei Garden is following government style of relentless increase in prices and eventually no one can afford cars, HDBs and even hawkers anymore. Is that what the government wants???
* * * * * * *
FT good, slaves even better: I am dismayed with this PAP minister who lamented the closure of Lei Gardens, jumping to his ministerial conclusion that Lei Garden closed because of lack of plentiful cheap labour.
My question to LSY is, “Is this the only reason why Lei Garden closed?”. What kind of half baked minister that takes LG’s excuse without verification. If he had checked, he will realize that LG close primarily because of the abundance of many other better restaurants for the price they are charging, AND they have to charge those prices primarily because of high rentals in Orchard Road AND finally, because Singapore is now facing an economic slowdown. It was simply too many premium restaurants chasing the same well heeled customers.
Off course restaurants that has been operating with plentiful cheap labour will now find it difficult to find enough experienced Singaporeans to fill the gap…because the “cheap FT” PAP policies of the last 10 years had driven Singaporeans away from F&B. Citizens can see how damaging PAP’s cheap FT policies have been when even a 5% reduction in DRC from 50% to 45% could cause Lei Gardens to close.
Has LSY has just shot PAP in the foot by exposng the aftermath of a horrendously damaging PAP FT policy OR is LSY echoing the greedy desires of restaurant owners by asking for a reinstatement of the DRC to 50%.
Why stop at 50%, might as well revive the slave trade. Slaves don’t get paid, that should boost the profits of Lei Gardens a thousandfold.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/07/11/the-real-reasons-why-lei-garden-is-closing/
