Uncle Lim Taxi Knowledge Chief

Ran a noodle stall in a coffeeshop for three years, and let me kill the romance with real numbers first. Rent in a decent coffeeshop can be 4k to 6k a month, and a hawker centre stall via the tender system can be even more if it's a good location. Then ingredients, gas, cleaning fees, dishwashing contribution to the coffeeshop, and if you hire even one helper at 2k plus, your monthly overhead before you earn a cent is easily 8k to 10k. The killer is the hours, I was at the market by 4am and cleaning up past 9pm, six days a week, and my body broke down by year two. The food was loved and I still sold out daily, but the margins on a 4.50 bowl of laksa are thin, and I'd only do it again if I could command premium prices or control my own rent.