SINGAPORE, June 6 — Nicholas Lim, owner of La Cantina in Venezia, a restaurant at Village Hotel Changi, said that it felt like he had “lost his child” when he had to close his restaurant in early April this year after 17 years in business. The restaurant had originally opened in 2003, when...
As F&B sales in Singapore fall by 53pc in April amid circuit breaker, some restaurants choose to close shop for goodF&B sales tumbled by 53 per cent in the month of April as compared with the same period last year, after dropping 23.7 per cent in March. — TODAY pic
Lim is not alone in his plight as the pandemic has devastated Singapore’s food-and-beverage industry in the last few months, as reflected in the latest data from the Department of Statistics Singapore yesterday. Singstat said that overall retail sales also plummeted 40.5 per cent in April compared with the same month a year ago, to S$2.1 billion , after sliding 13.3 per cent in March.
A check by TODAY found that while some of the restaurants on the list are indeed out of business, others are scaling down their operations or pivoting to new business models. A spokesperson from Strumm’s Holding, which owns Meats N Malts, said that most of its customers were office workers in the area and most of them have not returned to work since the circuit breaker.
She and her two sibling co-owners had to close that outlet when the circuit breaker kicked in and their employees moved to work at a new stall at Hong Lim Food Centre, with 90 per cent of the sales there coming from deliveries.
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