Looking For Ideas For Small Food Business On Koh Tao

[Jezz]

My Thai wife and I (living Isaan) have friends on Koh Tao who run a very small thai resturaunt. We are considering visiting for a holiday and checking-out the possibility of opening a VERY small (poss street stall) for the wife to operate on a rental basis for extra income. I was wondering if farang food might also be a viable seller? Any ideas most welcome. Thanks.

[H2oDunc]

Koh Tao has enough food options as it is. It is also very expensive to live there. It is also very small and does not suit everybody. Unless you had a novel food item I would say there would be no great demand for it. Have a good look first when you come for a visit.

[Jezz]

Koh Tao has enough food options as it is. It is also very expensive to live there. It is also very small and does not suit everybody. Unless you had a novel food item I would say there would be no great demand for it. Have a good look first when you come for a visit.

Thanks for your thoughts. Appreciated.

[dave30]

Try a dive shop. I dont think there are many of them there yet

[Jezz]

Try a dive shop. I dont think there are many of them there yet

Not many dive shops on Tao? Really? However, it's just a very tiny - maybe part-time - idea for the missus I'm interested in. I'm a retired 'oldie'. A dive would kill me! A little food stand is all we're thinking of. Perhaps just for a few months a year 'cos we have a house in Isaan.

[BigC]

always room for isaan food stand. as long as it is cheap. all the isaan local workers eat there lunch ad inner at these stalls. even if they work in a restrant. perosnally i your wife speaks good english she woul be better working for someone else. l someone else mke the money and yorwife gets a wage every month. hotel dive shops all need thai staf spcially the dive shops becuase they re foang owne which means they all need abou 5 thai staff per shop

[Jezz]

always room for isaan food stand. as long as it is cheap. all the isaan local workers eat there lunch ad inner at these stalls. even if they work in a restrant. perosnally i your wife speaks good english she woul be better working for someone else. l someone else mke the money and yorwife gets a wage every month. hotel dive shops all need thai staf spcially the dive shops becuase they re foang owne which means they all need abou 5 thai staff per shop

Yep, I thought the same. Cheap Isaan food for the workers. Maybe. Thanks.

[screamingeagle]

The best way to find an idea for a small business, is to go to Koh Tao for a few months and look around at what there is now, chat with the locals, both Thai and farang, and try to spot an opportunity!