Overview
- Participation becomes voluntary at tenancy renewal in exchange for rent or TOL discounts, and privately owned shops may opt out immediately; HDB expects no immediate drop in availability as most leases are not due.
- Operators that opt in must offer three fixed meal options—an economy rice set with one meat and two vegetables, a halal option, and a breakfast item—plus two budget drinks.
- HDB extends a 5% rental discount to the full three‑year term for rental coffee shops, and introduces a TOL fee discount for private operators equivalent to 5% of assessed market rent over three years, capped at the fee.
- Operators must pass discounts in full to participating stallholders and declare the sharing in a letter of undertaking, with clawbacks if obligations are not met.
- HDB will collect stall‑rent data to improve transparency and will require successful bidders of new shop tenders to hold their tendered rents for six years.