somewhereintime

22# GATSE
For example, the food court rent would be $8,000 a month, while Monday to Wednesday would be really quiet throughout the year.
In comparison, the food court rent is $5,000  with much better traffic.
At Pacific Plaza, you may get a food court space for as low as $500, you do the math.

somewhereintime

25# GATSE

The rent at Aberdeen is $8,000, they might give you a bonus stall if you twist their arm,
they are desperate for tenant especially at the food court.
while the rent at Yohan is $5,000

somewhereintime

29# GATSE

It is possible to do over $1,000 sales a day at Yaohan foodcourt, so it is not that expensive.
I used to run a sandwich shop at Harbour Centre, $48,000 sales per month, the rent was $2,000.
It worked out only less than 5% rental expense, not bad in 1980.
Generally speaking, when you do the budgeting, the majority goes to Food and Labour cost, then
rent and other Operating expenses
For examples:  $1,000 daily sales x 30 days
$30,000(Sales)-  $7,500(25%Food Cost) -$ 6,900(23% Labour Cost) -$5,000 (16.7% Rent)-$1,000(3.4% Utilities)-$1,000 (3.4% Opex) = $8,600 operating profit(28.67%)
So if can manage to do $1,000 daily sales at Yaohan, excluding  party trays, which would bring in 40-80% extra sales usually under table cash.
  you are in pretty good shape to start with and it is quite possible. Long Hair used to do tons of catering service at Crystal Mall and the clients
continued to order from him even he moved to Richmond location.
If you are operating a coffee bar, all you need is to use up 2 Kilo of coffee a day, the coffee sales alone would almost generate $1,000 daily sales,
add 50% food sales then you are on the safe seat. As coffee suppliers would give you 30 Days credit, that mean, you sell $30,000 worth of espresso/Cappuccino/latte
before your first payment of $1,200; typically the cost of a $4.00 Latte is 16-18% including disposable cups etc.

somewhereintime

33# lizzie

Chef Tony Ma who used to own the 柏麗寶   and made a little fortune then
relocated  to  柏天尼 Pesto Restaurant at Venice Plaza Richmond.
He used to post his own picture on Chinese newspapers  with shoulder-length long hair.
He called himself 長毛