Expat tipoff?
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Expat tipoff?
Ever wonder why 'barang' style food is so expensive? Most expat owned restaurants in PP have menus with similar pricing to Aussie or NZ prices. In those countries labour is high cost...minimum wage around $18 an hour. Food ingredients are expensive, rents are typically 30% of turnover. The average hospo business is lucky to make 10% net each month. But in SEAsia? I don't believe it. We are being ripped off.
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Re: Expat tipoff?
Explorer.... is that you?
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Just like pineapples
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Did you ever check the prices of imported foodstuffs? And the rents in good locations?hdgh29 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:54 am Ever wonder why 'barang' style food is so expensive? Most expat owned restaurants in PP have menus with similar pricing to Aussie or NZ prices. In those countries labour is high cost...minimum wage around $18 an hour. Food ingredients are expensive, rents are typically 30% of turnover. The average hospo business is lucky to make 10% net each month. But in SEAsia? I don't believe it. We are being ripped off.
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Dirty feminazi Australia is a rip-off for honest asphalters
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I do not believe that rents in PP are higher or as high as tents in Sydney or Auckland. Example.
10 years ago I owned a restaurant in Ponsonby, Auckland. My rent was $1000 a week.
10 years ago I owned a restaurant in Ponsonby, Auckland. My rent was $1000 a week.
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Oh you were most certainly being ripped off, paying $1000 a week for something you already "owned!"
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Don't know about PP (or tents) but I know that rents for good locations in Temple Town are more than that.
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