What a rude start to the week.
Ten stallholders at Zheng Hua (Eating House) on Block 28 Dover Crescent found out on Monday that not only has their coffee shop's operator not been paying the utility bills (SP Services disconnected its supply that morning), she also intends to return the property to the Housing Board, which means all of them need to move out pronto because the property has to be unoccupied when turned over to the HDB.
All the stallholders were all caught unawares. One had to throw away vegetables, chicken and mutton. Another lost $8,000 worth of prawns, fish slices, oysters, pork and beef, reports The New Paper.
Deng Hua, the coffee shop operator who is in her 40s, told TNP that she had a divorce "and that's why I don't want to run the coffee shop anymore. I wanted to transfer the coffee shop to someone else."
Deng started renting the property two years ago and had already found a replacement, but a dispute between her and whoever she was going to hand the business to led to her not settling both the utility and rental.
For its part, HDB says it's offered Deng options to settle her backlog, and that it will continue to rent the space out to function as a coffee shop "so that residents' needs can continue to be served."
Sure, but how about the poor stallholders?
Photo: Moo Ping via Facebook
What a rude start to the week.
Ten stallholders at Zheng Hua (Eating House) on Block 28 Dover Crescent found out on Monday that not only has their coffee shop's operator not been paying the utility bills (SP Services disconnected its supply that morning), she also intends to return the property to the Housing Board, which means all of them need to move out pronto because the property has to be unoccupied when turned over to the HDB.
All the stallholders were all caught unawares. One had to throw away vegetables, chicken and mutton. Another lost $8,000 worth of prawns, fish slices, oysters, pork and beef, reports The New Paper.
Deng Hua, the coffee shop operator who is in her 40s, told TNP that she had a divorce "and that's why I don't want to run the coffee shop anymore. I wanted to transfer the coffee shop to someone else."
Deng started renting the property two years ago and had already found a replacement, but a dispute between her and whoever she was going to hand the business to led to her not settling both the utility and rental.
For its part, HDB says it's offered Deng options to settle her backlog, and that it will continue to rent the space out to function as a coffee shop "so that residents' needs can continue to be served."
Sure, but how about the poor stallholders?
Photo: Moo Ping via Facebook