Soon Heng Restaurant closes, no S'porean wanted job

[hokkien]

Soon Heng Restaurant closes, no S'porean wanted job One of S'pore's oldest curry fish head places closed last week as it can't get enough Singaporean workers to fill MOM quota.
Singapore, November 5, 2012

The last curry fish head had been served and the last customer had paid and left.

At 1.45pm on Wednesday, Soon Heng Restaurant at Kinta Road - one of the oldest curry fish head restaurants in Singapore - pulled down its shutters for good, after 36 years.

Its owners, Mr Hoong Khai Chew, 49, and his wife, Madam Ong, said they can no longer find the manpower to serve their trademark curry fish head.

Madam Ong told The New Paper that the restaurant had a problem finding enough Singaporeans to fill the required Singaporean-to-foreigner quota: "Singaporeans tend to stay away from the F&B industry.

They don't like to work on Sundays and public holidays, and do not like to be put on probation.

"We have placed advertisements as well as contacted job fairs, and the Yellow Ribbon Project, but few would approach us directly."

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[Narong Wongwan]

must be cheapskates slave driver employers..........never heard of this place before also........must be some act famous place close due to no business........good riddance.

 

[Devil Within]

A case of failed entrepreneur who is not business savvy and not smart enough to come out with creative solutions to overcome his business failure in the competitive market now blame on lack of workers. This type of business owners will go burst sooner or later.
Better sooner than later.

What's worst is the prostitute SPH putting out all these excuses articles to justify their master's FT policy.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

So many small businesses still thriving. Don't know how to swim don't say swimming trunks too big la.

 

[wMulew]

This is further proof that loser oppositions and their stupid supporters are ruining the country and that PAP was absolutely correct when they claim FTs are keeping jobs alive

 

[halsey02]

must be cheapskates slave driver employers..........never heard of this place before also........must be some act famous place close due to no business........good riddance.

Matt Ya Ya is driving taxi at S$7,000 a month, they must be paying the lowest possible & working the longest hours possible, with a S$20 ang pow for Lunar New Year maybe..for the last 36 years, they must have been employing other Nationalities like MALAYSIANS, if not, how could they survived till now?

Whose fault..but theirs, too dependent on CHEAP LABOUR...time & cost has caught up, whom did they vote for? who cause their costs to rise so dramatically..and stop blaming the SINgapore workers, who have to make a living to pay & pay...!!

 

[Brightkid]

Business failed due to no customers, blamed it on no local workers!

if business is good, why can't boss pay more, or like many others, hire foreign workers?

As usual, blame the locals. What else is new?

 

[Raiders]

This one the food must be not nice. Normally if your services is shit but the food is above average, Sinkies will still go and eat.

 

[Glaringly]

The MSM has unexpectably raise the expectation of each and every odd job labourer that they should not expect less, when a cleaner is paid $3,000 a month.

Bravo PAP!

 

[zeddy]

This is further proof that loser oppositions and their stupid supporters are ruining the country and that PAP was absolutely correct when they claim FTs are keeping jobs alive

Have you tried their fish head curry before? Do you know if they really make good fish head curry?

PAP fucktard let me tell you this.. I had eaten there before years ago thanks to the treat of a colleague, and their fish head curry just can't make it..

If want to blame, then blame it on their poor fish head curry thats why there're not many customers packing the place every day.. Even the kopitiam near my place sells much tastier fish head curry than Soon Heng's..

 

[chupacabra]

Bullshit employers deserve to close down. Why not go to third world cuntries and open business. see whether poor people want to work for you.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

This place located quite near to little india. Funny why don't they hire foreigners. Also so near to little india serving curry fish head think the kelings at that area don't eat chinese curry cos it's tastes different from keling curry.

 

[hokkien]

This place located quite near to little india. Funny why don't they hire foreigners. Also so near to little india serving curry fish head think the kelings at that area don't eat chinese curry cos it's tastes different from keling curry.

Bro could be its not halal

 

[shOUTloud]

Now that they have closed their restaurants, the owner and his wife need to work, right? How about re-joining the industry as waiters, dishwashers, cashiers since it is such a wonderful industry?

 

[batman1]

Singaporean bashing again ! Seems that it is the trend started by the PAP to blame anything on Singaporeans.
Singapore companies/businesses go bankrupt ,blame singaporeans,low birth rate,blame singaporeans,cannot find workers,blame singaporeans..............KNNCCB to the Singapore employers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ray_of_hope]

Supposedly the oldest curry fish head restaurant in S'pore but one that very few have even heard of.
Seems like another fairy tale similar to the $7k/mth cabbie spiel.

 

[hokkien]

Fish head restaurant sell starhub top up card?

 

[SgParent]

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Soon Heng Restaurant closes, no S'porean wanted job One of S'pore's oldest curry fish head places closed last week as it can't get enough Singaporean workers to fill MOM quota.
Singapore, November 5, 2012

Like that also true pink Singaporeans' fault?

They have to close shop because
- they are embarrassingly arrogant and embarrassingly stingy, refusing to pay a fair remuneration to attract quality employees
- they are embarrassingly stupid, to follow the MOM rules religiously instead of copying the way MNC, SME are doing to hire more and more cheaperest foreigners
- they are embarrassingly bad in running a restaurant properly so why not spin their failure around the myth that Singaporeans are lazy, want a cushy job?

 

[hairylee]

Like that also true pink Singaporeans' fault?

They have to close shop because
- they are embarrassingly arrogant and embarrassingly stingy, refusing to pay a fair remuneration to attract quality employees
- they are embarrassingly stupid, to follow the MOM rules religiously instead of copying the way MNC, SME are doing to hire more and more cheaperest foreigners
- they are embarrassingly bad in running a restaurant properly so why not spin their failure around the myth that Singaporeans are lazy, want a cushy job?

I agree with the last point.
It is the same observation I made when I patronised them many many years ago.
At that time I thought they will close shop soon but surprised that they last till now.

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Dear Frens,

my 2 cents input with regards to the Foreign Workers in Singapore. I sure kenna flame by the left wing bleeding heart liberals, and the right wing extremist.,.but I will write it anyway.

Firstly, I had a chat last night with a Pinay chick in pinoyland who worked in spore before. She worked as a manager in a fast food place for a year than went back. Now she want to return to singkieland but cant get job as MOM is not issuing work permits etc etc. Also many fast food outlets really short of workers....not just this unheard off fish head curry stall.

I feel that for F & B industry, we as educated singkies should not worry about Foreigners doing the jobs as we wont do it right? We should be like Mudland where by low level jobs etc are done by cheap foreign labour and supervisors and managers etc be done by locals.

That way locals can get higher pay, move up the value chain and foreigners handle the low end crap. Look lets be serious,,who wants to be waiter in this day and age??

Ok another point, back in the 80s and 90s. Most waiters etc were all local,,people even went into SHATEC to get jobs in F & B..but thanks to the PAP all these got disrupted and cheap FTs just took over the whole thing.

We need to restore the 'balance'. Whereby Foreign workers are there to compliment local labour and not overtake it.

MOM did the right thing in cutting the foreign labour but they are doing it in the wrong industry. They should be cutting labour on the PMET category, that is where most singkies are employed and they are the middle class and the ones which generate the most economic activity and generates the most stability. If PAP wants votes,,look after singkies,,and not whine that PAP will lose votes etc,,,when it comes up with shit policies.

In addition for the F&B industry,,all supervisors and managers must be locals,,only wait staff etc than are foreigners,,,this way by undercutting the wages of the foreigners will locals have higher pay,..also have to eliminate PAP rent seeking behaviour and monitor rent increases and its high time rents get cut..