Another limitation under current rules for residential premises is that shopfront signage, which could attract walk-in customers, is forbidden \u2014 much to Chia\u2019s consternation. During her opening week, she was advised by CNA\u2019s producers to bring her signage indoors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted people to sometimes walk past \u2026 and realise there\u2019s coffee and matcha here. I\u2019ll just keep my doors open,\u201d said the barista. \u201cBut I also hope that for home-based businesses, (the authorities) won\u2019t be so strict (with) us.\u201d<\/p>\n
BEING MINDFUL OF NEIGHBOURS<\/p>\n
As the authorities do not actively monitor home-based businesses, enforcement typically begins with neighbours\u2019 complaints. Ng, the private dining chef, learnt this early when his neighbours objected to him barbecuing meat in the common corridor.<\/p>\n
Town council officers stepped in, and he had to adapt. Today, he cooks in his utility room, using a makeshift vent to redirect smoke and adjusting the barbecue process too.<\/p>\n
\u201cHot and fast barbecuing will create a lot of fire and smoke, so I designed \u2026 a low and slow approach, which requires a longer time,\u201d he said. His pork ribs, for instance, take four hours to cook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another limitation under current rules for residential premises is that shopfront signage, which could attract walk-in customers, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,38163,158,67559],"class_list":{"0":"post-101166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cna-insider","10":"tag-entrepreneurship","11":"tag-home-based-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}