The Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) are not happy with some food stalls peppered across Singapore.
The consumer watchdog has made an official call for all stall owners to display food prices prominently at their shops, after carrying out a food price survey at 584 of them. 89 food stalls at hawker centres, markets, food centres, coffee shops, food courts and eateries did not make their prices known so easily on their boards — and that means it’s easier to cheat patrons.
More than half of the errant stalls that were found without prominent price displays are the ones offering Mixed Vegetable Rice. So you might be paying more than what you ordered at chap chye png/nasi padang stalls. Not so Economic Rice any more, eh?
“For stalls that do not display their food prices, consumers will only be able to know the actual price of the food they ordered after it has been packed and handed over to them,” wrote CASE on their press release.
“To help consumers to be more discerning and be able to compare prices, CASE would like to urge all hawkers to display prices prominently at their food stalls.”
Another interesting find from the survey is the fact that there’s an increasing number of hawkers charging consumers more for the surveyed food items, more so than the average price. The biggest offender would be Nasi Briyani Ayam, with close to half of the stalls surveyed are selling the dish higher than the mode price of $5. Not to mention they put too much rice in proportion to the curry and meat anyway.
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