Boycott pass-the-buck businesses
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Feb 23, 2011 - ST Forum
I REFER to last Saturday's report ("Changes for firms"), which quoted Mr Ivan Lee, founder of restaurant chain Thai Express, as saying that the rise in foreign worker levy would be passed on to consumers most of the time, which is why prices of food and services continue to go up.
His remark seems to imply that the Government can introduce any manner of levies and all businessmen need to do is pass on the cost to customers. Any rise in the prices of food and services can, therefore, be attributed to the Government.
His comment reveals an unacceptable attitude by businesses towards customers and suggests an indifference to the spirit and objective of the foreign worker levy.
From a customer's viewpoint, such a remark, especially coming from the boss himself, is wrong. I, for one, shall not be patronising his restaurants.
Gan Teck Lee
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then how?
expect him to make losses?
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We consumers or customers are the losing end. Anything increase, they will push the cost down to us. It is really unfair for us.
And with the increase of foreign worker levy, it will make the matter worst especially we are already facing the inflation now.
Things will be getting more and more expensive.
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thats why i am getting the hell outta here
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Things getting more expensive.
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Dear Mr Gan,
I empathy your anger on my comments of passing on the costs to the consumers. I can understand the recent food hikes are increasing the expenses of the majority. From a business point of view, it does not make any sense for us to fully absorp the levy as we can coping with the supply side of the costs due to the price hike in chillis, oil and other food ingredients.
If I can't even cover the costs, my business can go bust and you will never get to taste my delicious foods anymore. Do consider to partonage my chain of restaurants, I will inform my staff to serve you two cup of water FREE. If that is not enough, I throw in one bowl of rice FREE as well.
Your sincerely
2nd Man of Thai's Express
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I might as well dont taste yr foods if it is too exp.
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ya, boycott.
its not like other businesses arent doing the same thing.
just because they dont say it dont mean they're not doing it, silly!!
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If everybody do their part, eat out less, and I am sure they will dare not push up the price.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Feb 23, 2011 - ST Forum
I REFER to last Saturday's report ("Changes for firms"), which quoted Mr Ivan Lee, founder of restaurant chain Thai Express, as saying that the rise in foreign worker levy would be passed on to consumers most of the time, which is why prices of food and services continue to go up.
His remark seems to imply that the Government can introduce any manner of levies and all businessmen need to do is pass on the cost to customers. Any rise in the prices of food and services can, therefore, be attributed to the Government.
His comment reveals an unacceptable attitude by businesses towards customers and suggests an indifference to the spirit and objective of the foreign worker levy.
From a customer's viewpoint, such a remark, especially coming from the boss himself, is wrong. I, for one, shall not be patronising his restaurants.
Gan Teck Lee
Dear Mr Gan,
Mr Ivan Lee is running a business, that is to say, he is trying to make a living through self-employment.
I am sure that restaurauteurs will not cavalierly increase the prices of their fare, knowing full well that customers like you may choose to boycott their business and run off to their rivals.
However, I also know that there's only so much that restaurant owners can do to absorb rising costs before their earnings drop unacceptably low. If that sounds unfair to you, then please consider how you would react should your own company cut your wages to pay for rising operating costs.
And be glad that he is upfront and honest about his reasons for wanting to raise his prices, for I am sure that there are many other restaurant owners who are far less forthcoming.
At the end of the day, if you are truly worried about the rising cost of eating out, then maybe you should just eat at home.
Regards,
Fudgester.
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Yeh boycott if you must but i'd just think it's purely business here. End of the day, the govt is the ulitmate culprit. Raise cost of land, then developers up the rental, food becomes expensive. Raise foreign workers levy, business raise prices. Fine transport companies for poor practices, they raise fares. And the best of all is the GST, raise the GST and it's a ripple effect thru every echelon of society.
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
Yeh boycott if you must but i'd just think it's purely business here. End of the day, the govt is the ulitmate culprit. Raise cost of land, then developers up the rental, food becomes expensive. Raise foreign workers levy, business raise prices. Fine transport companies for poor practices, they raise fares. And the best of all is the GST, raise the GST and it's a ripple effect thru every echelon of society.
one of the many ways to take back the whatever goodies they're giving out or have given out. -
Yes, business owner or customers cannot blame for the rising cost of food.
The root of the problem is the levy imposed by the govt. And the domino effect that carries down to pple.
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Levy, levy, levy.
It's a rich man's world.
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I have long given up on eating resturants, the most I patronise are hawkers, but if not, I will bring home-cooked food to work.
Even the rich must come down from their lalala world and smell the earthly smell of poverty.
It is not a question now of being rich, now is a question of how rich you must be to be really rich. The race to be richer than the rest is on. The poor will get trampled all over and left for the dead.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
Feb 23, 2011 - ST Forum
I REFER to last Saturday's report ("Changes for firms"), which quoted Mr Ivan Lee, founder of restaurant chain Thai Express, as saying that the rise in foreign worker levy would be passed on to consumers most of the time, which is why prices of food and services continue to go up.
His remark seems to imply that the Government can introduce any manner of levies and all businessmen need to do is pass on the cost to customers. Any rise in the prices of food and services can, therefore, be attributed to the Government.
His comment reveals an unacceptable attitude by businesses towards customers and suggests an indifference to the spirit and objective of the foreign worker levy.
From a customer's viewpoint, such a remark, especially coming from the boss himself, is wrong. I, for one, shall not be patronising his restaurants.
Gan Teck Lee
I REFER to Gan Teck Lee's reponse to last Saturday's report ("Change for firms"), which quoted Mr Ivan Lee, founder of restaurant chain Thai Express, as saying that the rise in foreign worker levy would be passed on to consumers most of the time, which is why prices of food and services continue to go up.
From a forumite's viewpoint, such a remark, especially coming from a consumer himself, is a waste of newspaper space and shows poor quality response in the local paper as people are just arguing rather than offering suggestions to improve economic and social problems foreign workers bring to Singapore. It exhibits Mr Gan's lack of understanding and pitiful ego over a trivial comment.
As a Singaporean myself, the levy's aim is not to increase the damage, but to improve a local Singaporean's competitiveness again foreign workers in the food and service industry. Most food and service industry are facing shortage of staff, and due to that, a rising levy will mean that most employers resort to passing the buck to the end consumers.
In this competitive market, we have to relook at the Government's strategy. A good start for the Government is to introduce more "benefits" to hiring locals instead of increasing levy. Levy will only do what Mr Ivan Lee suggested, increase cost of living.
(i am too bored.)
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Everything UP UP UP....
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Think, take for instance, maybe a rich guy from some where else, he's got a big chain in his own country, he comes in, one shot, he opens up maybe 10 franchais resturants, with a very deep pockets, he can at least knocks out some of his weaker immediate opponents.
With so much different foreigners, he will already have a ready made market. Due to locals interest in eating, they will also try and if the quality is good then they will also be customers.
By that time, after he have a more sure feel of customers needs, he can also proceed to knock out the rest.
Those that got knocked out, not all will be in trouble, most have many other business ventures, not necessary food anyway.
I say give the rich hell, they will give hell to us poor, we will just see who die first.
The traitor PAP government have given them more than enough, they repaid the country with employemt of foriegners and low wages, depressing wages further, opening up even a wider gap between rich and poor.
Utimately, business are taking their cue from the government for behaving like jerks and nothing else.
Even businessmen have no communal love of this country, talk about what else?
I still rememenber BreadDog which doesn't hire locals, by the way that joker have lots of other franchaise, so even if now I don't eat his shxt bread anymore, will he got bankrupt?
http://www.transitioning.org/2010/04/04/bread-talk-we-do-not-want-to-hire-singaporeans-temasek-review/
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see the problem with fucking ministers is that they don't do business themselves and they probably don't come from business families. So they have little idea most times about how such an increase of levy can impact on the ultimate consumers.
Bunch of fucking idiots.
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More F and B business will fold up and more pple will be unemployed.
Those foreigners will have to pack and leave spore for good.
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at the end of the day, it's either if one is making a profit or a loss. If one is making a profit, it depends on how greedy that person is. Making a profit of $1000 or even $1 is still a profit..this is the standard term of profit. However, some are greedy...they want to maintain the same profit margin which is never possible
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
see the problem with fucking ministers is that they don't do business themselves and they probably don't come from business families. So they have little idea most times about how such an increase of levy can impact on the ultimate consumers.
Bunch of fucking idiots.
agree wth bro clown...are u still doing shows??where are ur shows now??i wana have a good laugh -
look if you are unhappy with the prices, boycott. But boycotting because costs are pushed to you is absurd. What else do you expect him to do? cut pay?
He could possibly absorb if he is making enough profits, but if people can be squeezed for more money, I don't see why he should squeeze his profits first
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Originally posted by hisoka:
look if you are unhappy with the prices, boycott. But boycotting because costs are pushed to you is absurd. What else do you expect him to do? cut pay?
He could possibly absorb if he is making enough profits, but if people can be squeezed for more money, I don't see why he should squeeze his profits first
It will be a good excuse to make the price ridiculous.
Coffee prices up, Coffee go up 10cents. Even though the powder price go up like say 2cents?
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Dont need to boycott, if every family eat less outside gradually, they will feel the pain and they will dare not up their price.