I suspect they want to hire cheaper foreign labor.
I also suspect they should not expand too fast and becomes a common brand.
They should move into KL. There you can hire FT at rm1700 per pop. You just provide them a place to stay. I think it goona be fine. So you basically pay rm1700 per pop. If he needs a place to stay, he probably staying on a single bed space. Basically it only rm500 per pop.
1700 + 500 = rm2200. Which translate to 700sgd per pop per month.
Here you hire a F&B personnel from Malaysia, they ask for $2200 for a start and if he doesn't have SPM, it's another $900. Plus your non working fathom worker needed to top up to your cpf calculating 37% of 1600 : $592.
You need to pay almost 3.5k to 4k just to hire a single worker to work for you.