Another 30% of its clients, the independent travellers who find the café on the tourist map, vanished with tighter travel restrictions and lockdown in cities around the world. Like most F&B operators, the co-founders of My Awesome Café now hope their landlord will offer some rental relief.
SINGAPORE (Mar 27): My Awesome Café, located along Telok Ayer in the building formerly occupied by the Chung Hwa Free Clinic, has been doing a roaring business for the last six years.
But its fortune started to turn after Lunar New Year with the Covid-19 outbreak and as Singapore imposed travel restrictions. First, the Chinese clientele disappeared overnight in early February. As more companies encouraged their staff to work from home, about 50% of My Awesome Café’s regular clientele vanished, says SC Bong, co-founder of My Awesome Café with Franck Hardy.
