I guess we can now take the next active approach towards setting up a cafe or a F&B joint. To read what other SilverHairs had discussed, read about earlier discussion here. If, after reading the discussion, and you have a strong interest in setting up a F&B joint, you can join the discussion.
Two SilverHairs Shirley Wong and Daniel Kang have positively indicated tremendous interest. At the same time, we have Lily Ho, Margaret Cheo, and Andrew Yeung, with previous experience in F&B. Rene, SB Khoo, Ronald Wi and June have expressed interests to participate.
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Date: Thur 5 July 2007.
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Time: 1900 – 2100 hrs
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Place: Raffles MRT (exact place will be informed to participants).
Please note this meeting is not a discussion on the pros and cons of setting up a F&B joint. The purpose of the meeting is to turn the ideas into fruit.
Terence Seah
Please register me
Hi All
As Terence has noted, I am interested to be a part of this discussion. However, I will be away in Malaysia from 5th to 12th July to attend a relative’s wedding so am unable to attend the meeting on 5th. Hope you all have a good meeting and do me informed.
Thanks and regards.
sb
SB,
We will definitely share the outcome on this meeting.
Currently, we have Shirley Wong, Daniel Kang. Ronald Wi, Andrew Yeung and Terence Seah.
Hi Terence,
Ronald will not be back for the meeting.
cheers
me too
I enjoy watching TV progs on how people make their first million, the innovative people who dare, the entrepreneurs who went in on gut feel etc. And I admire such people! So much guts, drive and never say die attitude :-). Sigh…I am nowhere near that category. My parents neither gave me that kind of genes nor financial backing. :-)So this setting up a cafe is really beyond me :-)) Modest pushcarts with teeny weeny capital may be a possibility :-)…But would luv to go listen in “awe” if I could. However, 5 Jul evening, my husband and I will be at airport to pick up son (my only child). Hven’t seen him for half a year.
Hi Terence,
I will not be able to make it for the meeting this thursday.
Rgds
Daniel
Hi Terence
Will the meeting still on?
Of course-lah.On…
We will have a full program. We first talk about cafe. If not enough we can talk about hundreds of other ideas.
How about a franchise tuition centre? Will not only make a lot of money but also employ many seniors as teachers. A very natural Blue Helmet enterprise.
Do we need a franchise tution centre if we are not to speak french & get chastised for showing off?
There’s really nothing much to teach in franchise. What’s importtant is to know exactly what the franchisor has which the franchisee wants and be part of it.
That understood & agreed, the parties will then hv to pore over the franchise agreement to see whether it contains all those, they hv agreed upon, no more, no less, and then dutifully & responsibly implement the agreement.
As I don’t have any interest on a franchise tution centre. So, I will not attend the meeting. Sorry
first time Tim spoke without the funny bee in his bonnet :-))..is that how u say it?..the solemn and serious side of Tim :-)) He is usually with his funnies :-)) is that how u say it too? :-))
Sorie, June, if I do come across as a damp squid and hv lost my spark………….what do guys call the male version of menopause?
Feeling down with many things…..like the 4 children from 2 families’ sudden loss of at least 1 parent, knowing not what the future beholds. Senseless death resulted from even more senseless killings…..love, passion, jealousy, hatred….
GST up, NETS charges up, unbridled madness in the property & stock markets………terrorism, bombs, dengue fever, selective surgery, callousness of people generally, a staid society, the unceremonious demise of the grand o’ dame after a short 34 years, the imminent closure of the oasis, enslaved workforce, a criminal worshiiped as a hero in the re-making of a star ……………
Need to find that Buddhi tree.
Franchise tuition centre doesn’t mean a school teaching franchise. It is a group of tuition centres teaching primary and secondary kids standard subjects. There is a proposal to integrate standard pedagogy with study methods like those taught by Earnest Wong, Adam Khoo and Mind Edge eg mind mapping, speed reading, memory management and etc.
The only franchise about it is how it can be organised corporately like Kumon.
No Buddhi Tree. Only Learning Tree.
Back to cafe.
Here’s an interesting hybrid concept. Incorporate a learning centre and a cafe. Learn while you have your lunch. Meal comes “set” with your favorite enrichment talk.
Food for thought?
Here’s another cafe idea.
Play games like team sudoku and make friends over a meal. There are few places running the same idea with board games.
Yo Tim,
How about meals on bikes during rest stops on amateur event during Tour de France in Spore? Or a cyclist theme cafe. Call it “Bike and Bite”.
Will we see you at cafe talk?
(See the subtlety of subject mix. Boss can’t say its out of thread or that we are talking out of context.)
KT,
I thot you wanted to teach franchise when you said “How abt a franchise tuition centre” as is understoon when someone says “How abt a Kungfu tuition centre”.
So, the omniscient you arent tutoring us in an omnibus or an omnitheatre on how to start a franchise……phew, thanks a lot.
(Not my fault to think what I thot as you hv never failed to excite me with yr grandiose biz ideas).
One will have to package the tutition centre’s curricula, the subject contents & its concept in an unorthordox unrecognisable way if one wishes to offer it as a franchise. (Kumon’s Kwan knows that very well).
For example, include an hour on how to punish the teachers like making them write lines or standing on chairs as a reverse role play to teach creativity and reflex to changing situation. Or like what you have almost said – seat a sexy thinly clad hostess to lunch with you in a tuition center set in a cafe where hard liquor is sold.
Otherwise, if the curricula is largely the same as offered in another tuition centre, you cant lay claim to a franchise with enforceable rights for infringement.
I prefer the Arc De Triompe than the Tour de France, not least, I love to see the animals sweating it out than me mounting a bike and work out a sweat out for others to see.
Haha, KT, if any discussion shoots off in a tangent, it’s fated. Nobody has yet the guts or gumption to blame fate; least, to taunt & tempt fate for its making.
(I’ll make a dash to the 17th July meet-the-people session but sorie, not 2nite).
Fate first.
“If Lillian Too, You can Too too.”
Easy. Drink and eat a lot of raw garlic/onions. You’ll have all the wind and water to last a lifetime.
Aslamak, KT, so Lilian is drawn in?
Lucky you, she isnt quite 45 yet otherwise if as a SHCian reading yr compliments, she cd bless you with all the wind & water you want without forcing you to eat onion/garlic.
I never dare play play with geomancers (esp if it’s a geomanceress or rhinocerous)………they really are magical in many ways beyond belief.
Hahaha, if 1 day while we danz the rock & roll at SHC D&D & you do only only the squat up-down, we dont hv to ask why.
Minutes of cafe meet.
In attendance: Crowded. Three’s a crowd. 2 man and a babe. Terence, me and Shirley
Main ideas:
1 Run a hotdog in a food court. Run a food court.
2 Run hotdog outlets in a specific location type eg high pedestrian traffic areas like MRT and linkways. 5 to start.
3 Take over an existing hotdog chain.
4 Run a Kelongtel ie resort-in-a-kelong.
AOB (Any other biz)
1 Shirley reported about a cafe that she nearly took over. The one that got away. Sounds like a fishing trip.
2 Shirley spoke of her dream cafe. Sounds like close to Evelyn’s transit-lounge type of atmosphere in a shophouse.
Akan Datang (Next Change)
Watch out for IPO. Expect a private placement within SHC first. Hold your breath. Take a real big breather. We are hot dogging for the long haul….
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KT, you’re efficient to come out with the minutes within 12 hours. Amazing !
I like the main ideas discussed: Steven loves and keeps dogs so will have some for you to run them everywhere at yr food court. The dogs can be hot or otherwise trained to know when to be hot like when there’s high pedestrian traffic. Dont worry, no kelong you one.
(Sorie, got to rush off now, moving office location …….play with you later. Cheers !)