Restaurant owner puts luxury cars up for sale in bid to save once popular Suphanburi restaurant

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

It's come to this - Thais having to sell their four wheel pride and joys just to save their businesses from the latest wave of Covid-19.

 

Daily News reported that infections in the central province of Suphanburi yesterday were 1,856 cases.

 

Their reporters hot-footed it to the Pak Chong Wine Restaurant after reports that the owner was selling her BMW and Mercedes Benz cars.

 

Manatsaya or Yui Laisakun, 46, explained that her restaurant was so popular in Muang district that customers had to book pre-pandemic. 

 

Now despite following all the rules, all the protocols, reducing staff, stopping music, not serving alcohol, trying online sales, she was faced with closing unless she tried something drastic.

 

The absolute final resort was to close the restaurant and let down her staff, many of whom have been with her for ten years.

 

So she has decided to sell her Benz 250 and BMW X5 and plow the proceeds back into the business to keep it afloat.

 

 

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[johng]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

The absolute final resort was to close the restaurant

Should just do that and keep the cars... when/if the covidiocy ever ends she can restart the restaurant then.

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

that is why Thailand must OPEN NOW ALL RIGHT NOW !!!

This will only get worse and the result will be more infections AND more

poverty losses and destroyed economy.

there is enough knowledge and expereience to conclude this - OPEN ALL NOW

and accept the resulting death toll, until vacconation.

[samtab]

So she was able to buy several cars that cost millions on then comes crying that it's sad to sell them ? BUY A FACE !

 

[worgeordie]

12 minutes ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

that is why Thailand must OPEN NOW ALL RIGHT NOW !!!

This will only get worse and the result will be more infections AND more

poverty losses and destroyed economy.

there is enough knowledge and expereience to conclude this - OPEN ALL NOW

and accept the resulting death toll, until vacconation.

The UK which has a much higher number of vaccinated people,

jabbed with AstraZeneca , not Chinese .......,have opened up , and

numbers of infections are going up sharply, and younger people

are also getting infected ,  "accept the resulting death toll" ,as long

as its not you ???? ????

regards Worgeordie

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

8 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

"accept the resulting death toll" ,as long

as its not you 

might be me as well. no way to run.

it made sense to lock down in the first few months of the pandemic.

not now.

i also stayed in my room for few months. but not anymore.

simply imposible.

cannot live like that.

also my old parents stopped locking themselves and go out to the streets and gym.

no other way.

[Kwasaki]

I'm more concerned about poor people having there Waves taken away because they can't pay there loans than some hiso with a Mercedes. 

[Tropicalevo]

She is selling the cars to retain the staff rather than make them redundant. Well done.

Running a business rule 247:-

Take money out of the business when it is doing well, put it back when it is not.

[RandolphGB]

48 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

The UK which has a much higher number of vaccinated people,

jabbed with AstraZeneca , not Chinese .......,have opened up , and

numbers of infections are going up sharply, and younger people

are also getting infected ,  "accept the resulting death toll" ,as long

as its not you ???? ????

regards Worgeordie

This is not true. The number of cases have fallen sharply over the last seven days. 
 

Thankfully politicians have realized that masks and lockdowns don’t work and we will have to learn to live with this particularly nasty seasonal virus.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

This will only get worse and the result will be more infections AND more

poverty losses and destroyed economy.

I think many on here do not seem to understand what this is doing to the elderly expat community - and by that I mean anyone over 55 on retirement visas/extensions.

 

If average life expectancy is say 85, it means about 3.3% of all expats in that bracket living in Thailand will die each year. I doubt many expats as before are coming to live in Thailand during this pandemic, some but not the same amount. If the expat community loses 3% a year, by end of next year, the expat community will be down near 10%, near 16% ish if still closed in 2 more. It will take decades to replace the loss of these people.

 

Many expats keep businesses afloat. I think Thailand should open immediately for all those over 55 who have been vaccinated.

 

The argument will always be 'if we do not open now, then when' !

 

 

 

 

[toolpush]

2 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

that is why Thailand must OPEN NOW ALL RIGHT NOW !!!

This will only get worse and the result will be more infections AND more

poverty losses and destroyed economy.

there is enough knowledge and expereience to conclude this - OPEN ALL NOW

and accept the resulting death toll, until vacconation.

You mean act like Sweden?

[toolpush]

1 hour ago, RandolphGB said:

This is not true. The number of cases have fallen sharply over the last seven days. 
 

Thankfully politicians have realized that masks and lockdowns don’t work and we will have to learn to live with this particularly nasty seasonal virus.

Woah, careful there. That doesn't fit the forum narrative.

[Caldera]

Allow me to worry about those Thais who don't have luxury cars they can sell. This restaurant owner will most likely get through this pandemic in relative comfort and can rebuild her business.

[dj230]

I felt bad when I read the thread title until I saw they were selling BMW's and Benz's in thailand

 

 

[sammieuk1]

You don't need to ask the price the word *** "luxury" *** has been added like with houses roughly double what its worth ????

[ronster]

I’m sure she won’t be walking anywhere and still has access to overpriced cars ! ????????

[ChipButty]

I know a family in Bangkok they have to sell the Porsche 

[ukrules]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

So she has decided to sell her Benz 250 and BMW X5 and plow the proceeds back into the business to keep it afloat.

Well that's a mistake, flogging a dead horse if you will. The clock will be ticking until it runs out and she's back in the same position again but with nothing to sell, then the inevitable will happen and she will be broke.

 

If she owns the land, buildings and cars, etc the best thing to do is to close it down, fire the lot of them and wait.

 

I have a feeling there's going to be some leases involved in everything she 'owns'.

[Bruntoid]

3 hours ago, samtab said:

So she was able to buy several cars that cost millions on then comes crying that it's sad to sell them ? BUY A FACE !

 

Let’s do a deal - she ‘buys a face’ whatever that means and you buy an education - deal ? 
 

I was thinking with the seriously tarnished thaivisa name being binned, and not before time, the anti Thai rhetoric would be managed - seems I was wrong!  

[wensiensheng]

2 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

This is not true. The number of cases have fallen sharply over the last seven days. 
 

Thankfully politicians have realized that masks and lockdowns don’t work and we will have to learn to live with this particularly nasty seasonal virus.

They did however take care to vaccinate a high percentage of the population before opening up. That is not the case in Thailand….yet.

[wensiensheng]

1 hour ago, toolpush said:

You mean act like Sweden?

Judging by his posts on other threads, I think he means like Mexico and  Brazil, particularly Mexico.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

It's come to this - Thais having to sell their four wheel pride and joys just to save their businesses from the latest wave of Covid-19.

Makes good sense, cars come & cars go, there just material items.

Keep the business going and when good times return you can but another car...

lose the business you lost everything.

My missus polished my pride and joy last night... but I ain't selling that just yet.

[Isaan sailor]

I'll give ya 200,000 tb for both the Benz and the Bimmer.  Can pick them up tonight...

[nkg]

3 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

This is not true. The number of cases have fallen sharply over the last seven days. 
 

Thankfully politicians have realized that masks and lockdowns don’t work and we will have to learn to live with this particularly nasty seasonal virus.

 

Coincidentally, schools broke up for the summer last week. Kids were getting 2 tests a week at school, and none of them were vaccinated.

 

Now the same unvaccinated kids are getting zero tests a week. It doesn't take a genius to see that reported infections were guaranteed to fall this week.

[LivinLOS]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

The UK which has a much higher number of vaccinated people,

jabbed with AstraZeneca , not Chinese .......,have opened up , and

numbers of infections are going up sharply, and younger people

are also getting infected ,  "accept the resulting death toll" ,as long

as its not you ???? ????

regards Worgeordie

from almost 50k a day a week ago to 23k a day yesterday.. Its halved in a week.. 

Please tell me how thats 'going up sharply' ?? 

 

[sucit]

I would wager they lose the business. What smart business person keeps liquid assets in cars lol

[SW Happy]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

The UK which has a much higher number of vaccinated people,

jabbed with AstraZeneca , not Chinese .......,have opened up , and

numbers of infections are going up sharply, and younger people

are also getting infected ,  "accept the resulting death toll" ,as long

as its not you ???? ????

regards Worgeordie

Actually the UK has just today reported numbers down for the first time.

[Knocker33]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

The UK which has a much higher number of vaccinated people,

jabbed with AstraZeneca , not Chinese .......,have opened up , and

numbers of infections are going up sharply, and younger people

are also getting infected ,  "accept the resulting death toll" ,as long

as its not you ???? ????

regards Worgeordie

I think you will find that the cases in the UK have dropped sharply for six consecutive days

[scorecard]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

She is selling the cars to retain the staff rather than make them redundant. Well done.

Running a business rule 247:-

Take money out of the business when it is doing well, put it back when it is not.

She does seem to have some compassion for her staff, well done. 

[ukrules]

46 minutes ago, nkg said:

 

Coincidentally, schools broke up for the summer last week. Kids were getting 2 tests a week at school, and none of them were vaccinated.

 

Now the same unvaccinated kids are getting zero tests a week. It doesn't take a genius to see that reported infections were guaranteed to fall this week.

You may not be aware but when the kids are on school holidays is the time when viruses spread the most, it's always been this way, going back decades before COVID that is.

 

They tend to move around a lot at this time of the year...whether that happens this summer or makes any difference whatsoever remains to be seen.