Earlier in June, the owner of Big Bowls Project, Habibah, shared that she was closing the business after eight years.
But in what she calls a “plot twist”, Big Bowls Project will remain open after all.
The owner announced the news in an Instagram post on Aug 14, stating that while the Amoy Street stall is gone, a new team has taken over the brand and will be running the business via delivery.
“Please show the new team the same love you showed me,” she wrote.
She explained the turn of events: “When I put out that closure post, I genuinely meant every single word of it. But then life did that thing where it just surprises you in the best way possible.”
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Habibah shared that after she announced the closure of Big Bowls Project, some people reached out to her expressing interest in taking over the brand, including several people that she did not know.
“I didn’t expect that at all. To know that people believed in what Big Bowls Project stood for enough to want to carry it forward,” she said in the post.
“After much thought, it felt like the most beautiful ending to pass it on rather than let it disappear completely. So Big Bowls Project gets to live on.”
Habibah added that she’d “be a fool” not to take up the opportunity given to her.
AsiaOne has reached out to Big Bowls Project for more details.
Habibah opened Big Bowls Project in 2017 when she was a 23-year-old in her final year of university.
The business specialises in hearty salmon bowls topped with healthy ingredients.
She initially planned for it to be a five-year project but it turned into an eight-year one.
Habibah founded the brand because she saw a gap in halal food options in the central business district and wanted to tap on that opportunity. To gain experience in the industry, she worked at several healthy bowl shops for research.
While she planned to break even after operating for a year, she managed to do so in just six months.
In her closure post on June 5, she looked back on her past eight years fondly.
“Somewhere along the way I forgot about the five-year plan. I got comfortable, I fell in love with the rhythm of it all, and eight and a half years passed just like that. I wouldn’t trade a single day of it,” she said.
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