[Bigiron]

KF Seetoh slams high coffee shop rent, criticises HDB for complicit in rising living costs 

Veteran food critic KF Seetoh has criticised HDB for enabling unsustainable coffee shop rents that worsen Singapore’s cost of living. In a Facebook post on 19 September, he condemned tenders exceeding S$88,000 a month, saying such costs burden hawkers and consumers while undermining government budget meal policies.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/09...ing-costs/

[Lukongsimi]

Kia see lung $88k per month
How to get customers who are willing to pay expensive food?
Rather they cook at home

[Niubee]

1m rental per year.... must sell starbucks price

[winbig]

1m rental per year.... must sell starbucks price

Sell at Starbucks price also not enough. Have to sell at omakase price

[Niubee]

Sell at Starbucks price also not enough. Have to sell at omakase price

Cut cost use longkang water...bery gd ah

[RiseofAsia]

Already got LKKs proposed to install hot water dispenser at hawker centre.
This team becomes deaf again after GE.

[babygirl]

[Wy:Nox]

Govt not doing their job again to regulate but merely hang around the monitor the long- standing situation.

[Ola]

All these landlords must be PAP good friends

Even Ng CM scared of Money Launderer Su

but dare to scold school teachers who are poor

[Cmpunk]

For the Singaporean sake Gov should carefully look into this kind of unfair rental fee which both stall owners and consumers suffer in long term
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