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Opening a restaurant is an expensive endeavor. In addition to rent, equipment, furnishing, decor, and staff, there’s all those food and beverage costs. There’s also signage, marketing, as well as licenses and insurance to pay. One thing that many first-time restaurant owners don’t think about is how expensive menus can be.
Unless they are opening a restaurant that changes its menu every day, they are going to want to be able to print a bunch of menus and have them last for as long as possible. While it is considerably cheaper to print things today than in the past, having to constantly replace menus due to stains, rips, and smudges can quickly become a drain on not only money, but valuable time. This is why restaurants depend on menu covers.
New restaurants or affordable dining establishments can find good cheap menu covers that will protect their menus from the hazards of constant use. These are usually clear plastic covers that are easy to use and keep clean. Higher end restaurants can invest in more elaborate covers that match the colors of the restaurant or are even customized with a logo or other information. Covers are available in plastic, vinyl, and even leather to match any decor while still providing that essential protection.
Traveling to Singapore is a splendid luxury that suggests that some very good things are right around the corner. You’ll be enjoying the fantastic metropolitan flavor of the place, and discovering that some of Singapore’s best restaurants can change the way you might think about food. There is a great blend of cultures here, and Singapore’s history as a port town means there has been exchange between this world and others for centuries. Along with the exchange of goods, there are exchanges of cultures, ideas, and visions of the world. This is evident not only in the food, but also in the works of art. There is an interesting correlation between art and food, anyway, and it seems that the more multicultural places have a much greater variation in their spices and artistic styles.
This is certainly true in Singapore. It’s interesting to consider that when a place becomes open to new tastes in cuisine, other tastes also open up. There are many cultures at play here, and they do show themselves in the cuisine and in the forms of visual art. Both are extraordinarily diverse and fascinating. If your after-dinner stroll takes you near Marina Bay, by all means check out the enormously exciting Jendela Visual Arts Space. This is part of the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, and there is a lot to see here, with many different kinds of visual and performing arts. Jendela is a space that features work by local and international artists, and the taste here runs toward the contemporary.
The curatorial staff here has a real eye for the sublime and the smart, and often they combine, in shows such as Yeo Chee Kiong’s The House which is constructed with the Jendela space in mind. It is almost site-specific, and compliments the center very well, and is itself a fantastic work. The viewer walks through the exhibition as if through a house, and Yeo Chee Kiong’s acute sense for visual punning and seduction in his sculpture start to come alive. The familiar becomes strange in a suburban house gone wrong, but still somehow wonderful. It’s worth a visit when you’re in Singapore.