Singapore restaurants lower prices to tempt bargain-hunting palates
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In the trendy Boat Quay restaurant strip in Singapore, restaurant owners are venturing into various strategies to lure customers amid declining sales brought by the current economic downturn in Asia. Bourbon Street started to offer promotions, such as a boat ride for customer spending no less than S$50, or $29.22. Another restaurant in the area, Hot Stones, recently launched a new dish that is priced slightly lower than the average entree price of S$17. Boat Quay is seeing less tourists recently, and several expatriate regulars in the area are leaving the country, causing the restaurant strip to see declining sales.
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Singapore: In the trendy Boat Quay restaurant strip, restaurant owners are venturing into various tactics to lure customers
Publication Name: The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0191-0132
Year: 1998
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A contrarian move: bistro touts French food, frills in tough times
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Singaporean entrepreneur Jessica Lim decided to buck the trend by opening up an extravagant French bistro despite the economic crunch. Lim believes that opening up an extravagant restaurant in tough times makes some sense in that owners can leverage the slump in consumer prices to make a modest profit. Lim's Au Petit Salut bistro is located in a neighborhood populated by expatriates, and banks on its extravagant interiors and 'special services' to attract diners. The special services include the monthly newsletter containing tidbits of information on food and wine.
Publication Name: The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0191-0132
Year: 1998
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Singapore offers a different kind of order; an obsession with detail has its good side: eating out is a real treat
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Singapore boasts of many excellent eating places although other countries are more famous for their cuisine. The country has an assortment of restaurants, ranging from food stalls to five-star hotel dining rooms. Food centers in the area resemble huge shopping centers with a difference: only food is sold there. Chinese cooking predominates, with at least 10 regional cuisines represented such as Hokkien, Cantonese, Szechuan and Peking.
Publication Name: The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0191-0132
Year: 1996
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