“We opened shop in Toa Payoh ’cos there are a lot of seniors here and some of them need to continue working, but nobody wants to hire them,” says the café’s CEO. He adds that the affordable bakes are sourced from “the same suppliers that supply to hotels”.
Wallet-friendly S$2.30 croissants and S$1.80 muffins at Toa Payoh cafe run by ‘elderly folks in need’
According to him, iFood mostly hires “elders, stroke patients, or patients with some sort of disability”. He explains: “We work with lots of NGOslike Enabling Village and National Kidney Foundation . They come to us with patients with disabilities, and we try to hire them to function within our environment.”and in the Toa Payoh outlet, all three of its staff are seniors.
Alvin adds that they’ve specifically chosen to sell Movenpick ice cream as it’s not offered in the area: “We don’t want to sell any other brands of ice cream because there are other vendors in the vicinity, and we don’t want to ‘kill’ the vendors.”
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