It's just a food court operated by one of the PAP regime's F&B cronies. They must have received the directive from their masters to reduce the number of old fart or FT cleaners, similar to the hawker centres.
We saw a similar trend with the implementation of SafeEntry trickling down from hawker centres to heartland kopitiams (crony-owned non-aircon food courts), the most enthusiastic implementations came from the usual suspects.