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title: "Manpower nightmare: F&B businesses offer higher pay to no or few takers, urge MOM to relook foreign labour policy"
description: Several F&B operators have tried raising salaries and offering better working conditions to tackle the ongoing manpower crunch
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# Manpower nightmare: F&B businesses offer higher pay to no or few takers, urge MOM to relook foreign labour policy

SINGAPORE — Mr Jeremy Cheok has just two requirements for anyone willing to work in the restaurant he founded: Two hands and two legs. Age, he said, is not a factor.

Yet, he continues to find it tough to hire workers, with even "a couple of old people” who walk by to enquire about job vacancies not showing up on the day they were supposed to be interviewed, he added.