By Jessica Lim

THAT quirk of Singapore coffee shops, the Western food stall, is languishing.

About 130, or 10 per cent of such stalls here, have already shut down, squeezed out of business, said Mr Hong Poh Hin, vice-chairman of the Foochow Coffee Restaurant and Bar Merchants Association.

He estimated that 1,300 out of the estimated 2,000 coffee shops and hawker centres here have at least one Western food stall.

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