Shitty fight: toilet chairman vs hygiene chairman

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Jack SimJack Sim • 2nd2ndMr Toilet. Founder at World Toilet Organization. BOP HUB. Storyteller for Social Change. Author of book: The Gumption of Mr Toilet.Mr Toilet. Founder at World Toilet Organization. BOP HUB. Storyteller for Social Change. Author of book: The Gumption of Mr Toilet.
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Raising GST to give taxpayer money to Millionaires Coffee Shops Owners.

Writing another report is no use unless Minister Grace Fu actually goes out and enforces the rules against the recalcitrant coffee shop owners. The Foochow coffeeshop association and Keng Keow coffee shop association were invited to sit in her taskforce , yet they're the culprits who refused to renovate despite being offered a 90% grant of SGD 50k taxpayer's money.

Now Minister Grace Fu is giving grants for them to clean up their toilets. These are private businesses and you are paying them to clean up their own premises with taxpayer's money. You didn't pay shopping centers to clean up their toilets, why are you paying these wealthy Coffee shops millionaires our taxpayer's money? Why are they so privileged? They have to clean up if you enforce upon them. Why don't you increase enforcement?

I was not allowed to join the Toilet Taskforce because Senior Parliamentary Secretary Baey Yam Keng was worried that I would put pressure on the coffee shop owners to clean up. Why are they so afraid of these wealthy coffee shops owners?

We need to name and shame these DisGraceFul coffee shops toilets which are a terrible blemish to Singapore's reputation as a clean and green liveable city.

Can our government demonstrate that they are in charge and have a frank and serious conversation with these owners? It's so simple to solve if they stop avoiding the solution. Clean up or we will shut your coffee shop for a week.
Put up sign boards that says "This Coffee Shop is Shut Down due to Dirty Toilets."
Do that to 50 coffee shops each month and all the 1200 coffee shop owners will suddenly clean up all their toilets.

Task force recommends grants for renovations, deep cleaning to improve coffee shop toilet cleanliness

 

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Forum: Look into reasons for low uptake of toilet funding​

Feb 24, 2025

I refer to the article “Task force recommends grants for renovations, deep cleaning to improve coffee shop toilet cleanliness” (Feb 22).

The task force recommended grants be given to coffee shop owners to encourage them to “undertake toilet renovations” and “incorporate regular deep cleaning in their restrooms”. This seems too basic.

A standard toilet consists of toilet bowls/urinals, basins, mirrors, and a supply of toilet paper, water and soap. Lighting and ventilation should be automatically provided.

Coffee shop owners are not running charities. They collect rent from stall owners every month, and make the most out of their sales of drinks, alcohol and tobacco. Ensuring the cleanliness of the toilets and supplies of water, soap and paper should be on their “duty-of-care” list.

It was also reported that in 2020, the National Environment Agency introduced a year-long Toilet Improvement Programme for coffee shops, co-funding operators up to 90 per cent of the cost of improving toilet design or adopting technology to facilitate their cleaning and maintenance, capped at $45,000. However, only 44 coffee shops out of more than 1,000 islandwide signed up for the programme.

The task force failed to address this issue and the reasons for coffee shop owners not taking up the generous funding.

Retrospectively, all it takes would be for the team to conduct interviews with the coffee shop owners across the island to zoom in on the reason for their reluctance to upkeep the cleanliness of their washrooms.

Only after dissecting the primary issues of manpower and costs will the training of cleaners and the design of toilets be meaningful and relevant.

Chia Eu Foong

 

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Six coffee shops suspended and fined over unclean toilets​

The 27A Coffee Shop in Geylang (top) and 7 Stars in Sumang were two of the three coffeeshops that were fined $1,300 each.

Feb 25, 2025

SINGAPORE - Six coffee shops were fined and suspended for a day on Feb 21 for toilet-related lapses.

Five of the six eateries were repeat offenders, racking up two or more strikes in a year for dirty or poorly maintained toilets, according to notices from the Singapore Food Authority (SFA) published on the same day.

The 27A Coffee Shop in Geylang, 7 Stars in Sumang and Teck Wah in Toa Payoh were fined $1,300 each for three counts of failing to keep their toilets “clean and in good repair”.

Balestier joint Teck Seng and Al Mubin Restaurant at Syed Alwi Road were fined $1,100 each for poor toilet upkeep and the additional offence of failing to maintain sanitary fittings.

The 1002 Food Court in Toa Payoh was fined $1,200. It had notched up six demerit points for not providing toilet paper and soap, on top of eight demerit points for two counts of failing to keep toilets clean and in good repair.

Coffee shops or eating houses with 12 or more demerit points in a year face possible suspensions for one to three days, said SFA.

Coffee-shop toilets are the filthiest in Singapore, according to an islandwide study of public washrooms published in late December 2024.

The Singapore Management University study assessed 2,602 public lavatories based on 17 criteria and interviewed 4,905 people.

Despite more clampdowns by the authorities, coffee shops have consistently ranked poorly for cleanliness among public toilets in hawker centres, shopping malls and MRT stations since the survey was launched in 2016.

In 2024, SFA suspended 10 coffee shops for toilet-related and food safety lapses, a tenfold increase from just one suspension meted out each in 2022 and 2023.

Together with the National Environment Agency, SFA took over 1,200 enforcement actions in 2024 against errant operators for toilet-cleanliness lapses – more than triple the 360 logged the previous year.

A task force co-chaired by Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and the Environment Baey Yam Keng, who is also a Tampines GRC MP, was convened in 2024 to help improve the cleanliness of public toilets here.

 

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need some advice who is full of shiat until STINKIER than all public toilets combined lololololol....