Real advice:
1. If you are not prepared to get dirty and work long hours,
forget it.
2. If you haven't any experience cooking or working in a blue
collar environment, forget it - unless you really have a passion
for cooking and is prepared to endure the heat, oil, long hours and
even sacrificed your health for the period.
3. If you want to employ somenone else to cook for you, forget
it coz that will be the day!
4. If you do not know how to calculate a breakeven scenario and
have a grasp of the various cost elements and how you should price
to make a profit, you will need help.
4. If you are only trying out an idea without knowing much about
your customer type, what the success factors are, forget it. It
won't work.
5. If you think you can open up a stall and then start
collecting money from day one without really having to prove
yourself, forget it.
Many people have ideas.And they have tried out. And all of them
failed. Even some who copied others who succeed also failed.
If anyone says he can advise you but haven't actually
rolled up his sleeves and worked as a hawker, he is just an
opinated person. If anyone who is a real hawker and is giving you
advice, his advice may be informative but not really useful.
Running a hawker stall is not different from running any other
business. Hawkers have been lucky in the past. But it is cl;ear
that with increased competition, makreting knowhow is
necessary.
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