Hyperinflation Starts Now! Buckle Your Seat Belt Dorothy!
According to SoShiok.com:
Food Republic Charges $8.50 Econ Rice?? How Ridculous Is That?
I’m appalled to be told by the cashier at Chinese mixed rice food stall my rice dish costs a whopping $8.50 for my rice dish. This all happen last Wednesday at Food Republic in Wisma Atria.
I asked her if she has made a mistake? Afterall my food selection was anything but fancy: bean sprouts, sambal binjal, bean curd, long beans, the only minor luxury on my plate was a spicy squid dish.
She handed me the receipt and I saw that each vegetable choice costs $1.20 and the squid is at a ridiculous price of $3.00.
While ordinary people like myself cry out for high inflation rate of 6% and rising transport, grocery prices I find it appalling that a reputable food court like Food Republic endorses an over rated, over priced food stall that is in my opinion “day light robbery”.
- My prediction to my friends and colleagues is the $10 per happy MacDonald Meal is very near but I am seriously shocked at the price of simple “mixed-vegetable” rice which is often sold as “economical” rice at normal coffee shops else where.
Maybe it’s the “Formula One Race Ultimate Mixed Rice Special” which probably serve the tourist a “Up Sized” type of food.
Food Republic is a “branded” food court that had spread many shopping centre all over Singapore like Vivocity and Suntec. I heard it’s equally expensive at their branches as well.
Currently, the ordinary coffee shops that had not converted to food court is struggling with high competition & higher cost of raw food materials to sustain their businesses and maintain their margins…they might need to close down in the future to make way for more “expensive” food court to replace them eventually.
My neighborhood alone at Bukit Batok West Ave 5 coffee shop had been taken over twice by food court “kopitiam” and another relatively new food court name that I cannot remember.
The quality of their food may not be as good as “high class” types like Food Republic and don’t have “kampung” (village) style renovation but they are also priced at a higher range than nearby old coffee shop around $5.50 to $6.00 for more exotic food like western steaks.
I believe the future of food court will be more like Food Republic and it shall be very very very expensive in the future.
The solution to this is to go mega supermarket like IMM Giant or others to buy food to cook at home yourself (provided you are good cook haha) and of course you can travel around Singapore to find cheap food at the surburbs.
Feel free to comment on recommended locations for cheaper food in Singapore so to share with others!! 
