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New Delhi, <keyword id="4742614" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="ministry-of-housing-and-urban-affairs">Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs</keyword> (MoHUA) has joined hands with <keyword id="830092" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Zomato">Zomato</keyword> for home delivery of <keyword id="6361952" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Street-Food">street food</keyword> in six cities. As a part of Prime Minister <keyword id="456744" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="street-vendor">Street Vendor</keyword>'s AtmaNibhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme, the MoHUA entered into MoU with Zomato, to bring <keyword id="6770639" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="street-food-vendors">street food vendors</keyword> on its food-tech platform.<br /><br />In a statement MoHUA said that initially MoHUA and Zomato will run a pilot program by on-boarding 300 vendors across six cities namely - Bhopal, Ludhiana, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Vadodara. <br /><br />"The street vendors will be helped with PAN and fssai registration, training on technology/ partner app usage, menu digitization and pricing, hygiene and packaging best practices. Upon the successful completion of the pilot, MoHUA and Zomato plan to expand this initiative across the country in phases," it said.<br /><br />As per the MoHUA, this will give street food vendors online access to thousands of consumers and help these vendors grow their businesses. <br /><br />The MoHUA also launched the Mobile Application for PMSVANidhi se Samriddhi- Socio-economic profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families to link them to various Central government Schemes.<br /><br />"Covid-19 pandemic has restricted consumers from stepping out and forced them to follow physical distancing norms. In the given scenario it is important to connect Street Food Vendors with technology-enabled platforms to help them grow their business, thus helping them gain financially," said the ministry. <br /><br />In a first of its kind initiative, MoHUA entered into an MoU with Swiggy on October 5 last year and it is now joining hands with Zomato to empower street food vendors with digital technology.<br /><br />The MoHUA has coordinated with the key stakeholders including <keyword id="6414396" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="municipal-corporations">Municipal Corporations</keyword>, fssai, Zomato and GST officials to ensure that street food vendors are facilitated in completing the necessary prerequisites for this initiative.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/how-big-is-indias-debt-and-should-it-be-a-worry/articleshow/80688623.cms">How big is India's debt and should it be a worry?</a><br /></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/heres-why-you-arent-being-able-to-apply-for-brookfield-reit-ipo-through-zerodha-groww-angel-broking-and-other-stockbroking-apps/articleshow/80686457.cms"><strong>Here's why you aren't being able to apply for Brookfield REIT IPO through Zerodha, Groww and other stockbroking apps</strong></a><br />

Zomato joins hands with the Indian government to deliver street food in Bhopal, Ludhiana, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, and Vadodara

<p class="source"><span>AP Photo/Wong Maye-E</span></p><p class="caption">A food truck vendor near Times Square in New York City on March 15, 2020.</p><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/19/21185558/nyc-street-food-vendors-coronavirus">New York City's food trucks are shutting down</a> as more New Yorkers stay off the streets to slow the spread of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/wuhan-coronavirus">coronavirus</a>, Tanay Warerkar reported for Eater.</li><li>The <a href="http://streetvendor.org/about/">city's more than 10,000 street vendors</a> were not included in the city's mandate to close <a href="https://www.insider.com/new-york-city-mayor-orders-restaurants-bars-theaters-closed-for-coronavirus-2020-3">restaurants and bars</a> with the exception of takeout and delivery.</li><li>But as more people abide by <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-does-social-distancing-mean-how-you-can-practice-it-2020-3,">social distancing</a>, street food vendors are seeing <a href="https://twitter.com/VendorPower/status/1239613680498737152">lost sales of 80% or more</a> and <a href="https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/how-coronavirus-is-upending-new-york-citys-restaurant-world.html?utm_content=bufferaede8&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">daily profits of less than $30,</a> forcing many of them to close.</li><li>Most food truck vendors are immigrants and people of color who aren't eligible for benefits like paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, or other safety nets, according to the <a href="https://t.co/mrJWu8eCwC?amp=1">Street Vendor Project.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p>Many of New York City's ubiquitous <a href="https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/19/21185558/nyc-street-food-vendors-coronavirus">street food vendors are closing</a> as business plunges because of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/wuhan-coronavirus">the coronavirus pandemic</a>, Eater reported.</p><p>The government-mandated shutdowns and severly reduced business due to the pandemic has begun to cripple the restaurant industry. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hospitality-layoffs-danny-meyer-ushg-lays-off-80-percent-workforce-2020-3">Thousands of workers have already been laid off</a> or furloughed. This week, the city's <a href="https://www.insider.com/new-york-city-mayor-orders-restaurants-bars-theaters-closed-for-coronavirus-2020-3">restaurants and bars were ordered to close</a> with the exception of delivery and takeout.</p><p>Many food truck workers initially tried to stay open because they have no other option, even in a global pandemic, Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, the deputy director of the Street Vendor Project (SVP), an organization that advocates for New York City's street vendors, <a href="https://documentedny.com/2020/03/19/immigrant-workers-on-the-frontlines-of-covid-19-crisis/">told Documented NY's Olivia Heffernan.</a></p><p>"Street vendors are on the frontlines," Kaufman-Gutierrez said. "They have no choice but to go to work. Things are changing so rapidly that contingency plans at this point are: 'Where meals are being offered for families?'" </p><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Carlo Allegri</span></p><p class="caption">A woman gets food from a street vendor in New York City in April 2019.</p><p>But now, many have no other option but to shut down as New Yorkers stay inside and business slows to a crawl, according to Eater. On Monday, the SVP said many vendors had already experienced <a href="https://twitter.com/VendorPower/status/1239613680498737152">lost sales of up to 80% the week prior</a>.</p><p>"I made 20 bucks all day on Monday and that really doesn't cover anything," Ahmed Ebrahim, who runs a hot dog cart in Manhattan, told Eater. "... There is nothing out there for food vendors. Restaurants can do delivery and takeout, but we don't really have that option."</p><p>New York City is <a href="http://streetvendor.org/about/">home to more than 10,000 street vendors</a>, which include food trucks, hot dog vendors, flower vendors, and book vendors, according to the SVP, a part of the Urban Justice Center, which provides legal aid and advocacy for marginalized communities. Most street vendors are immigrants and people of color, and their customers are often other low-wage immigrants of color, according to Documented.</p><p>Los Angeles put a <a href="https://la.eater.com/2020/3/18/21184389/la-city-council-motion-ban-cancel-street-food-vending-legal-coronavirus-covid-19">"temporary moratorium" on street vending this week</a>, but New York City has no plans to do the same, a spokesperson for the mayor told Eater.</p><p><em>Are you a street food vendor in New York City who's been affected by the coronavirus pandemic? Have a story to share? Email this reporter at kwarren@businessinsider.com. </em></p>            <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-anxiety-therapy-advice-self-care-2020-3">Why you shouldn't judge yourself for having coronavirus anxiety, according to a therapist</a></h3>

NYC's food trucks are shutting down, but it's not because the city is telling them to - it's because so many people are staying inside

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Nasi Lemak.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Singapore is famous for its street food. In fact, it's so good that <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/a-singaporean-street-food-stall-awarded-a-michelin-star-2016-7">two hawker stalls there - street food vendors - just received a Michelin star each</a>.</p><p>While Singapore has plenty of five-star fine dining options, most people opt to eat street food in the city's inexpensive hawker centers, which are open-air food courts where vendors prepare everything from Malaysian curries to Indian roti and Chinese noodle soups.</p><p>However, these b<a href="https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/eating-street-in-singapore">eloved hawker centers may be in danger of disappearing</a> as younger chefs aren't interested in learning the trade and are gravitate toward more high-end restaurants.</p><p>Here are 50 photos that show why Singapore is so famous for its street food.</p>

50 photos that show why Singapore has the greatest street food in the world

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Street vendors in Paris were found storing food in the city's sewers, per Le Parisien. </li><li>Several videos show vendors putting items into and taking them out of the ground.</li></ul><p>Street vendors in Paris have been caught storing food in the city's sewers, local newspaper <a target="_blank" href="https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-au-champ-de-mars-la-pate-a-crepes-vendue-a-la-sauvette-est-stockee-dans-des-bouches-degout-08-10-2023-IHE2663DQNHSLMFPGBJFSAYIPY.php">Le Parisien</a> reported in October.</p><p>These vendors, who sell <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/savory-crepe-is-perfect-breakfast-2016-2">crepes</a> and sandwiches, were found storing ingredients in manholes along the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/tiktoker-debunks-romantic-notions-around-paris-london-goes-viral-2023-7">Champ-de-Mars near the Eiffel Tower</a>, per the report.</p><p>"Many use frozen dough that has been stored in questionable conditions. To mask the smell and rancid taste, they sprinkle it with vanilla sugar," one vendor told Le Parisien in French. The vendor was not identified in the report.</p><p>A video posted by Le Parisien showed <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgunAywVaZc">several clips of people removing bags containing food from sewer access points and electricity grates.</a> One clip showed a man placing a bucket underground and walking to a food cart. Business Insider could not independently verify the authenticity of the clips.</p><p>Crepe batter and other types of food, including meat and beverages, were also found stored in manholes, hatches, and vents, Le Parisien reported, citing a resident who lives in the 7th district — an affluent neighborhood and home to the Eiffel Tower. The food is then reheated and put up for sale, per the report, citing another local resident.</p><p>Frank Delvau, president of the Union of Hospitality Trades and Industries of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/paris-syndrome-tiktok-reasons-to-visit-paris-2023-7">Paris</a> and the Ile-de-France, said the sellers represent a public health risk, noting they have no way to wash their hands, per Le Parisien. Some were seen selling "tainted merchandise, water bottles filled up at the tap," Delvau said.</p><p>Delvau said the food stands are not often not licensed. Many of the vendors themselves are undocumented and exploited by criminal organizations, he said.</p><p>They also present unfair competition for local licensed restaurants that "pay rent, fees, and need to face inspections from hygiene regulators," said Delveau.</p><p>"We're about a year away from the Olympics, and if we do nothing, it will become a veritable illegal food market around the Eiffel Tower," David Zenouda, vice-president of the Union of Hospitality Trades and Industries of Paris and the Ile-de-France, told Le Parisien.</p><p>Nicolas Nordman, deputy mayor of Paris, told Le Parisien he was aware of the dangers these vendors pose, especially to people visiting the city.</p><p>"We must warn potential consumers, often tourists, of the dangerousness of the products on sale, because it is a real public health issue," he said.</p><p>Rachida Dati, the mayor of the 7th district of Paris, told Le Parisien that the city has started cracking down on these unsanitary practices.</p><p>"In each intervention, the police seize and destroy 30kg of merchandise. During the week of September 11 to 16, they seized 380 bottles of water, 50 of wine, 200 of beer, and 90 ears of corn," she said.</p><p>Paris police chief Laurent Nuñe spoke about putting an end to street vending before the 2024 Olympic Games. "We will, of course, have completely eradicated the phenomenon of street vending, fortune-telling and other delinquent activities," Nuñe said, per <a target="_blank" href="https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/25/paris-police-plan-street-clean-up-ahead-of-olympic-games">Euronews</a>.<br /><br />This incident comes after an American tourist visiting in<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/american-tourist-says-paris-is-rat-infested-feeds-rodents-video-2023-8"> August voiced his concerns about Paris being infested with rats</a>. And in September, the French capital reported<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/paris-battles-infestation-of-bloodsucking-bedbugs-in-cinemas-airports-2023-9"> battling a major bedbug infestation.</a></p><p>Nordman and Dati did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, sent outside regular office hours.</p>

Street vendors in Paris are selling food stored in sewers to tourists, report says

New Delhi, Dec 23 () National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) and food regulator FSSAI will jointly organise national street food festival in the national capital during December 25-29.
<p>The 11th National Street Food Festival will be organised at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium here and around 75,000 people are expected to visit the festival.
</p><p>During the event, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will also organise its second edition of the 'National Eat Right Mela' to promote healthy foods.
</p><p>"Through this mela, we want to give a unique and distinct identify to our
local and street food," FSSAI CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal told reporters here.
</p><p>"We are also offering a platform to the packaged food industry to showcase innovation in terms of newer areas like reformulation of food products, healthier food variants as well as sustainable and enhanced packaging solutions," he added.
</p><p>Agarwal said there will be a complete package for people -- delicious street food, entertainment and education -- in this festival.
</p><p>The theme of this year's festival is 'healthier diets' where the idea is to focus various initiatives of FSSAI around healthy eating through gamification (in an interactive manner through games and quizzes).
</p><p>Food Safety pavilion will focus on demonstration of rapid food testing kits/devices.
</p><p>On December 26, Health minister Harsh Vardhan will launch the 'Network for Scientific Co-operation for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition' (NetSCoFAN), a network of research and academic institutions working in the area of food and nutrition.
</p><p>Sangeeta Singh, Head of Programs, NASVI, said: "This festival, over the years, has helped mainstream various street vending communities. We expect a footfall of around 75,000 during the five day festival".
</p>Arbind Singh, National Coordinator, NASVI, said about 130 street vendors would get the opportunity to showcase their regional cuisines to thousands of visitors from various walks of life.  MJH  BAL

FSSAI, NASVI to organise street food festival in Delhi from Dec 25

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>AP</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Whole Foods is trying a new strategy to attract millennials. </p><p>The company is seeking "hip and cool" outside vendors like tattoo parlors and record shops to operate inside its new chain of stores, called 365 by Whole Foods Market, according to its <a href="http://www.365bywfm.com/friends">website</a>.</p><p>The company says it's looking for "friends," or outside vendors, who offer anything from food and drinks to fashion or body care products.</p><p><span>"</span><span data-reactid=".0.$provider.$=10=2$/=013.0.4.$/=11.$=10">We want to partner with startups as well as established brands across a variety of categories to help enhance the 365 experience," the company says.</span></p><p>Each 365 store will have a different mix of vendors, which will operate independently of Whole Foods.</p><p>So what is Whole Foods specifically looking for from potential vendors?</p><p>"<span>Our Friends bring something powerful, something new and exciting, or known and trusted, but hip and cool for sure," the company states on its website.</span></p><p>Whole Foods is asking brands to reach out to them via email if they want to be considered.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>AP</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Los Angeles-based restaurant chain <span>Mendocino Farms might be one of the first outside vendors to operating inside 365 stores. </span></p><p>Whole Foods recently <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-just-backed-mendocino-farms-2015-10">took a minority stake</a> in the sandwich chain.</p><p>Mendocino has said it will open restaurants inside new and existing Whole Foods stores and that it will serve its full menu.</p><p>The menu includes items like "not so fried" chicken, spicy lemongrass steak banh mi, house smoked chicken and street corn torta, and prosciutto and free range chicken.</p><p>Offering freshly prepared sandwiches makes sense for Whole Foods. But adding a tattoo parlor or a record shop would mark a new direction for the grocery chain. </p><p>Whole Foods is opening the 365 chain to better compete with the increasingly crowded market for organic food. The chain will be cheaper than its namesake brand and cater to younger, tech-savvy customers.</p><p>The first 365 store opens in May in Los Angeles.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/foodborne-illness-attorney-avoids-these-foods-bacteria-bill-marler-2016-1">These are the foods a food-poisoning attorney refuses to eat</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="lpbWlpMDE6__JWmNVdxoXhbyqjENVHz9" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Whole Foods may build tattoo shops in stores to hook millennials

<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:399px"><div class="image"><p class="source">Jennifer Polland /Business Insider</p></div></div>Singaporeans take their <keyword id="6181" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Food">food</keyword> very seriously.</p>
<p>Bad restaurants don't survive here for long, and good ones have long queues and are impossible to get into.</p>
<p>While <keyword id="6356662" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Singapore">Singapore</keyword> has plenty of five-star fine dining options, most people opt to eat street food in the hawker centers, which are open-air food courts where vendors prepare everything from Malaysian curries to Indian roti and Chinese noodle soups.</p>
<p>The hawker center vendors are strictly monitored by the government for health and hygiene, meaning that it's nearly impossible to get sick from the food here.</p>
<p>We recently ate our way through Singapore, trying everything from hawker centers to fine restaurants. Here are the best things we ate.</p>
<p><em>Disclosure: Our trip to Singapore, including travel and lodging expenses, was sponsored by <span class="il">the Singapore Tourism Board.</span></em></p>

50 Mouthwatering Pictures Of Street Food In Singapore

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The Black money declaration scheme by the government has yielded some hundred crores in terms of revenue. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Pav-Bhaji-and-Jalebi-sellers-inMumbai-have-declared-Rs-50-crore-properties-to-Income-Tax-Dept/articleshow/54625160.cms">We have recently told you</a> how the <keyword id="6354751" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Income-Tax">Income Tax</keyword> department raid in Mumbai has revealed that some of the pav bhaji sellers have Rs 50 crore-worth of properties.<br />
Eating street foods in India has earned the country multiple laurels in the global front in terms of quick bites. While samosa and pakora can be considered a staple diet during evening in many Indian households, you have often felt pity on the man who sells it. Most of the time we tend to believe that samosa sellers in India are poor. Not only so, you must have noticed that some good-at-hearts wouldn’t take back change of balance just to make the street food hawker earn a little extra. But do you know that many of them actually don’t like that and they feel insulted. The reason behind this is, as many as 45% of street food vendors (including samosa wala, jalebi wala around your neighbourhood) just don’t have a self-esteem but earn almost a lakh of rupees every month.<br />
<br /> A <keyword id="274437" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Quora">Quora</keyword> post detailing the income of the street food sellers would shock you, if you aren’t aware of the profits they make. A Quora user had met a Samosa wala in a local train in Mumbai’s <keyword id="50155" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dadar">Dadar</keyword> station. Chitchatting for sometime, the person inquired about his income, if he is happy with the job. The samosa wala, who sells samosa in the office colonies of <keyword id="3713107" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="west-mumbai">West Mumbai</keyword> sells 4000 samosa a day. Each samosa earns him a profit of Re 1. Apart from that he sells vada pav, noodles pakora and some other fast food. Let me mind you, before the government’s scheme of wealth declaration, most of them wouldn’t have paid tax. Imagine this man was making Rs 80000- 1 lakh a month.<br />
<br /> While this may sound like an isolated story, other Quora users have found that most reputed kebab sellers of <keyword id="6359570" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chandni-chowk">Chandni Chowk</keyword> in Delhi earn not less than Rs 10000 profit each day. Even forget about Chandni Chowk where most people love to dine, you must have come across the shikanji (lime water) sellers below the metro stations in Delhi and <keyword id="53426" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="NCR">NCR</keyword>. During peak summer, most of them earn Rs 1500- Rs2000 a day.<br />
The most reputed breakfast in Delhi and UP, chhole batore would make you feel hungry at anytime of the day. If a Quora report is to be believed, many of them sell some 500 plates of chhole batore all through the day. They earn no less than Rs 1.5 lakh a month.<br />
<br /> One such snacks seller in the <keyword id="403902" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="College-Street">College Street</keyword> area of <keyword id="6354925" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kolkata">Kolkata</keyword> earns Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.2 lakh a month just by selling chicken pakora, fish finger and cutlets. Talking to one of the pakora sellers, we found that earning profit in non veg items are easier than veg. That’s because most non vegetarian items expensive and there is no hard a fast rule about how much quantities of ingredients you need to add.<br />
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However, just because a half of the fast food vendors, do keep in mind that not all samosawala earn the same and they shouldn’t be ignored. Have a samosa every week, pay on time and let the economy flow.<br />
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<em>(Image: India Times)</em><br />

Your neighbourhood samosawala may be earning Rs 1 lakh a
month, just like his counterparts in Delhi and Mumbai

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigbirdz/4488326835/">bigbirdz / Flickr</a></span></p><p class="caption">Grab a pretzel (or brezel) from the "pretzel king" in Switzerland.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Europe has plenty of delicious food to offer, but there's something about getting it from a street vendor that makes it taste better, and feel more local, than eating it at a sit-down restaurant.</p><p>We rounded up some of the continent's best street food from a variety of countries.</p><p>From a raw herring sandwich in Holland to a bagel-like bread in Turkey, here are the snacks you need to be eating on your next trip to Europe.</p>

20 street foods everyone should eat in Europe

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/tai-hwa-pork-noodle-singapore?select=QYl2oUEqjTvkacEEt3kBKg">Yelp/Derek W.</a></span></p><p class="caption">Tai Hwa Pork Noodle's most popular noodle dish.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Singapore is known for its incredible hawker centers, which are basically sites where vendors sell cheap street food from their stalls.</p><p><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g294265-d969086-Reviews-Hill_Street_Tai_Hwa_Pork_Noodles-Singapore.html">Hill Street Tai Hwa Noodle</a> in Singapore's Crawford Lane was<a href="https://guide.michelin.sg/en/2016-guide?max=12&amp;offset=0&amp;sort=name&amp;order=asc&amp;year=2016"> just awarded a one-star rating by Michelin,</a> the world's most elite food rankings. </p><p>The highest rating Michelin gives is three stars, so even a one-star rating means that the establishment is exceptional. Since many Michelin-rated restaurants are fine dining establishments, this small food stand's accomplishment has caught worldwide attention. </p><p>While it has modest offerings, Hill Street Tai Hwa offers bold flavors in its authentic Singaporean food. According to <a href="https://guide.michelin.sg/en/2016-guide/hill-street-tai-hwa-pork-noodle">Michelin Guide inspectors</a>, a meal does not cost more than $10. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/tai-hwa-pork-noodle-singapore?select=tAsBKyMHg0MRiIOu6vgzCw">Yelp/Ancy N.</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The food stall is most famous for its bak chor mee, a pork noodle dish.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/tai-hwa-pork-noodle-singapore?start=0">Yelp/Tina Y.</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The lines are long, especially during peak hours, but people don't seem to mind waiting 20 to 30 minutes for a fresh, piping bowl of minced meat and noodles.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-glitter-jars-reduce-anxiety-2016-7">Instagram is freaking out over glitter jars that supposedly reduce anxiety</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="k0NzNtNDE6gNr3RHHYOOUctoDl-CXwM7" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

A street food stall in Singapore was just awarded a Michelin star

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>AP/Mark Lennihan</span></p><p class="caption">Whole Foods suppliers say the grocer's costly new policies are hurting their business.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/AMZN-quote">Whole Foods</a> is charging brands more money for prime shelf space and introducing new fees. It has also stopped paying shipping fees for some products and dropped minimum-order requirements.</strong></li><li><strong>Some small and local vendors say the fees are damaging their business and they're considering cutting ties with Whole Foods as a result.</strong></li><li><strong>"I once drove to every Whole Foods store in the Portland area and dropped off jars of our nut butters" for stores to sell, said the founder of a brand of natural nut butter. "That's over, that's done. That's not ever happening again."</strong></li><li><strong>"For a small vendor to go through this is a hellacious, horrible time and financial burden," the CEO and founder of a snack-bar company said.</strong></li></ul><p><br />Whole Foods is changing the way it does business with suppliers, and some local and regional brands say it's having a crippling impact on their business.</p><p>The grocery chain is charging brands more money for prime shelf space and in-store product demonstrations and taste tests while also requiring them to pay ongoing fees to third-party companies for food-safety audits and photographs of their products. </p><p>Whole Foods has also dropped minimum-shipment guidelines that prevented stores from making tiny orders of just one or two cases of goods and stopped paying shipping fees for some goods, according to a company email on the changes. Several suppliers told Business Insider that they were losing money on shipments as a result. Two suppliers said they had refused to fill orders when shipping costs exceeded the cost of their goods. </p><p>The changes are part of an effort by Whole Foods to cut costs and streamline product merchandising across its stores. But they are leading to confusion and unrest among some of Whole Foods' suppliers, according to interviews with eight vendors and two brokers who collectively represent more than a dozen other brands. Some are considering cutting ties with Whole Foods as a result.</p><p>"They have pissed off their employees, they have pissed off customers, and they have pissed off their vendors," said a Whole Foods vendor of eight years who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. "From a financial perspective, we can only take so much abuse before we say this just isn't working for us anymore."<br /><br />Whole Foods spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan did not respond to requests for comment.</p><h2>Small brands are being squeezed by new requirements</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Twitter/@firstmate_kate</span></p><p class="caption">A Chicago Whole Foods store. Whole Foods stores across the US are suffering from food shortages as a result of a new inventory-management system, employees say.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Among the new rules at Whole Foods is a requirement that suppliers selling the grocer more than $300,000 of goods annually must discount their products by 3% to 5%, a change first reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whole-foods-places-new-limits-on-suppliers-upsetting-some-small-vendors/2018/01/05/7f58b466-f0a1-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?utm_term=.1605440a9446">The Washington Post</a>. Brands must also now pay fees to Daymon Worldwide, a Connecticut <keyword id="6354851" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Retail">retail</keyword> consulting firm, to schedule in-store product demonstrations - a key way for small and new brands to market themselves to customers. They could previously do their own demonstrations without paying a fee or hire outside companies to do it for them.</p><p>Whole Foods is raising its rates for prime, eye-level shelf space as well, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/getting-your-product-on-shelves-at-whole-foods-just-got-harder-1518085801">The Wall Street Journal reports</a>. </p><p>Every one of the suppliers that spoke with Business Insider said Whole Foods' new fees and other changes benefited larger brands that could more easily absorb extra costs. </p><p>"It's not going to be a launch playground anymore," said Lindsey Rosenberg, the CEO and founder of <a href="https://www.cherryvalefarms.com/">Cherryvale Farms</a>, a supplier of baking mixes to Whole Foods. "Young, hip new brands won't be able to afford to go to Whole Foods first."</p><p>Larger brands like <a href="http://www.annies.com/">Annie's Homegrown</a>, which is owned by the snack-food behemoth General Mills, can more easily pay to get prime shelf space, she said.</p><p>"Annie's is launching products at an explosive rate, and they can knock you off the shelf because they have more money to spend," Rosenberg said. "It's a whole new level of challenges for small brands. It's either go big or go home now."</p><p>Whole Foods has long been seen by customers as a destination for discovering new and local brands, vendors said. That's largely because Whole Foods gave its store-level buyers ample freedom to decide what to stock on their shelves. As a result, small vendors could work their way into Whole Foods by striking up a relationship with local buyers.</p><p>That system is changing as Whole Foods' global headquarters in Austin, Texas, takes on more power to decide what to sell in Whole Foods stores, according to vendors and Whole Foods employees. It's getting harder for smaller brands to get into Whole Foods now, they said. </p><p>"I once drove to every Whole Foods store in the Portland area and dropped off jars of our nut butters" for stores to sell, said <span>Michael Kanter, the founder of <a href="http://eliotsadultnutbutters.com/">Eliot's Adult Nut Butters</a>, a brand of natural nut butter based in Oregon. "</span>That's over, that's done. That's not ever happening again."</p><p>Kanter said conventional grocers like Kroger and Safeway, which are growing their selections of organic, natural, and local food brands, were welcoming brands like his that had begun to find a "massive barrier to entry" at Whole Foods.</p><p><span>Jim Holbrook, the CEO of Daymon, the consulting firm working for Whole Foods, said local products were still vital to Whole Foods' business model. The grocer, he said, is just charging them for the labor it costs to move products around during demonstrations.</span></p><p>"There's no move to keep those vendors out of the stores," he said. </p><h2>Some vendors are losing money on shipping costs</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Joe Raedle/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Some vendors aren't fulfilling Whole Foods orders due to rising shipping costs.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Whole Foods stopped covering shipping fees and dropped minimum-shipment requirements in March 2016 for its Whole Body department, which includes vitamins, supplements, and beauty products, according to an email the company sent to vendors. </p><p>About a year later, Whole Foods started rolling out <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-employees-reveal-why-stores-are-facing-a-crisis-of-food-shortages-2018-1">an order-to-shelf inventory-management system that cut back drastically on storage</a>. As a result, stores started making smaller, more frequent orders.</p><p>Small vendors with limited distribution centers often end up paying more in shipping expenses on small orders than their products cost, so some have stopped fulfilling Whole Foods' orders.</p><p><span>"When you are a small company only distributing from one facility in [the Pacific Northwest] and there is a store in Boca Raton that wants one unit and it costs $12 to ship and Whole Foods paying $8 on that invoice, you are losing money," one longtime supplier explained.</span></p><p><span>This vendor described scaling back investments in Whole Foods as a result.</span></p><p><span>"We're taking the resources we used to spend on trying to support sales in Whole Foods and shifting them to our online business," the person said.</span></p><p><span>Another Whole Body vendor described reassessing a relationship with Whole Foods. </span></p><p><span> "After our sales analysis profile for Whole Foods is finished, we will then see if it's even worth it for us," this vendor said.</span></p><p><span>Rosenberg of Cherryvale Farms said she was shifting resources from Whole Foods as well. </span></p><p><span>Her company is launching a new snack, and while she would usually give the new product exclusively to Whole Foods for at least six months, she's now going direct to consumers and launching it online instead.</span></p><h2>Brands are considering cutting ties with Whole Foods</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Whole Foods is requiring vendors to pay new fees for food safety audits and photographs of their products.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Some suppliers are considering pulling out of Whole Foods altogether as a result of the changes, vendors said. Others are terrified of being cut from store shelves and replaced by larger brands.</p><p>"A lot of the vendors are refiguring their game plans with Whole Foods," a broker who represents more than a dozen suppliers said. "At one time it was considered a reciprocal relationship. Those days are over. There is no feeling that Whole Foods cares anymore."</p><p>Another broker said, "My brands all want to pull out of Whole Foods because they are uncertain of what's going on."</p><p>Betsy Langton, the CEO and founder of the snack-bar company <a href="https://betsysrealfood.com/">Betsy's Bar None</a>, decided in December to pull out of Whole Foods.</p><p>She said she began to grow disillusioned with Whole Foods last year after it invited suppliers to a meeting at Oregon State University and announced that to continue supplying goods to Whole Foods, all vendors would have to start using - and pay fees to - two outside companies: UL Everclean and IX-One. UL Everclean is a food-safety auditor, and IX-One takes photographs of suppliers' products. Both charge ongoing fees. </p><p>IX-One, for example, charges $500 annually and $169 for initial photographs of a product, plus an additional $15 annually per product for suppliers of fewer than 300 different items. Any time a product is updated, suppliers have to pay the $169 fee again. </p><p>"Both cost a ton of money and time," Langton said, referring to the processes associated with UL Everclean and IX-One. "Whole Foods said, 'You have a year to get this done.' It's like communism. 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