Interesting topic. Any more ppl who knows about any hawker's earning per month?

given that generation nowadays are more enterprising, whereby they are more willing to try in search of the answer than to keep guessing. after all, failing which doesn't cost their lives and if it's successful it will be beyond his/her wildest dream. many successful people in business started off with no knowledge and experience, holding on to their idea armed only with guts.

I found that there are a couple of interested people looking to start up one and this might be a nice place to look for partners who shared a common interest in food.

this is just part of the cycle, the cost just keeps on going to the consumers...

I went through the story, it seems like she's operating from a foodcourt. If you read through again you can find a few weaknesses why her business failed badly. But again, at least she tried than to regret guessing her whole life. She may have lost money, time and opportunities but this experience had her see life from another point of view. Things that she might have overlooked sitting comfortably in the office. I am impressed.

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Added on July 11, 2010, 1:35 pmdeeplyheartbroken is most certainly looking for a new startup.

This post has been edited by pinkantelope: Jul 11 2010, 01:35 PM

Salute Lexiqa!

Guys, any nice place to start a hawker stall? Any suggestion welcome.

There are a lot of hot spots to set up your small eatery, it depends on whether what you're selling and your targeted market-these will eventually help you to find a more precise place that you want. For student areas, you may want to check out subang, sunway or cheras. For office areas, you can go for business centres like damansara perdana, phileo damansara and the like. For night time, it could be hawker centres like WaiSikKai, SS2 and so. People, please do not go into business just because you see other people are making good money, then you go experimenting on food and get yourself a location. Thinking that this is what most of the people did. If you are really sure this is your choice, there must be a proper planning and surveying. In business every step is as important, from your product to your targeted market, to the A&Ps and the location. Not just that you have something to offer and a location, you have to take into considerations many other factors.

This is an interesting topic to debate on. We wouldn't know how much a hawker can make, but I am sure a location determines all. Besides the location, the margin is as equal important. Many years back, a hawker driving a BMW is still a story that I can accept, as there aren't many competitions. Look now, everywhere you go stalls sprouting up as though people see gold in this trade. Competition is so stiff, take one place for example a food court in KL with an average traffic per day of 3000 people with a total of 30 hawker stalls operating. Each stall will definitely enjoy brisk business(about 100 patrons per stall) but imagine additional 30 more stalls being added. Instead of 30 stalls enjoying the cake now it would be 60 stalls for the cake. The number of patrons for each will fall(from 100 to 50). And each day, more stalls are on the way onto the street, into the kopitiams and so. Each competing for a piece of the cake. And in every jam packed food court, if you spend one whole day sitting in there you will see not every stall is enjoying good business, but because the place is crowded we normally have an impression that each hawker is doing good business. Take sometime sit in and count how many plates can some of them dish out(for those that are not so good in attracting the crowd) in a day?

I have heard of stories of successful hawkers and those who failed badly and some that are in between. And I always believe in "what you do is not no important than how you do it". You can have a few guys selling wanton mee in the same place competing among each other and yet in that group you will find one or two emerging the winners - but they are selling the same thing? Go and check out what they do to become the one that stands out.

The hawker trade is similar to the credit card industry, very saturated but can still survive. All you need is innovations to differentiate yourself from others. The key ingredient to drawing the crowd in order to generate a better net profits.

Amazingly, seems like they have bonded very well that the owner gave them his trust. Even with the use of POS(Point-of-Sales) they can cheat too, take the money give you your rice and pocket it themselves. Not everyone will ask for receipts. The business is either built on trust or there is some kind of mechanics to minimize(but not total elimination) of workers cheating on you. For chicken rice business, the owner could possibly count how many chickens are roasted for that day. I am sure when the owner is in the business long enough he will definitely know how many plates of rice can a whole chicken serve.

This would be good. As it's more specific, things that can be found in the net are mostly in general. More over one to one guide is better than group discussion. Looking forward. Do PM me when it's available.