those whites who run town council go run f&b might even close shop earlier nia
Nowadays with the skyrocketing rental prices, starting from small and slowly growing up outlet by outlet is not commercially viable for most small businesses out there.
You have to pump a large amount of capital in the 1st place, then immediately start big in order to obtain economies of scales to cut costs.
And also need enough capital to fall back on, if in the event of sustained period of poor sales. Need to have enough cash to tong for the period.
Unless you tell me the stall is for money laundering, thus no need to mind high rent and just stay 1 store all the way. Or owner willing to just tong all the way until his/her savings fully depleted.
Hence, most of the stalls you see at shopping centres, etc. now are those chain stalls.
For example, Saizeriya got a central kitchen and open 30+ outlets all over SG in around 15 years.
And also, they got enough capital to fall back on in the 1st place.
Nowadays most of the shopping malls (Malls REITs) are mainly made up of those chain stalls liao.
Those unique ones need to find those older kind of shopping malls where rental is cheaper but still got enough traffic e.g City Plaza/Bukit Timah Shopping Mall/Katong Mall/Queensbury Shopping centre, etc.
Beauty World MRT nearby got a few of these kind of malls, perhaps CSJ can consider opening 1 outlet around the area.