How Kith Café’s Founder is Helping Other F&B Businesses Survive

Singapore’s F&B sector faces severe pressures from soaring manpower costs, rising ingredient prices, and softer consumer spending, prompting homegrown café chain Kith Café to close all 12 of its outlets. According to founder Jane Hia, who spent 17 years building the business from a single Robertson Quay coffee joint into a multi-outlet operator, the current … Read more

Chinese brands are bringing their brutal F&B wars to S’pore

The retail landscape of Singapore is undergoing a visible transformation. In shopping malls across the city-state, the presence of Chinese food and beverage (F&B) brands is expanding rapidly, with newcomers like Molly Tea opening multiple stores within two months of arrival. This surge is not an isolated trend but a symptom of a structural crisis … Read more