QUOTE(shootingstars83 @ Apr 11 2014, 12:20 PM)
I did try although perhaps not enough times. In the end I have to do everything myself. It's really hard to get good helpers these days.
True but you have to do it anyway.. people are not standing still, they will see your success, and then they will come up with a plan that can do what you do and better and cheaper, and then where will you be unless you have a monopoly (and you probably don't) you just have to improve or you will end up losing your business.Case in point -- there's one mamak restaurant in a small office block nearby. It's the only mamak restaurant, and it's been doing well, good food and everything, for years. Then an office tower is built nearby, and someone opens a mamak stall in the food court there. They have air-conditioning and a ton of staff. As a result, everyone can eat quickly and in comfort.
Now the owners of the small office block are going to sell it off and everyone has to close or move. If they'd expanded to the tower's food court when it was first built, they wouldn't be having to close now.