ES.4Three Moves

1 · Make the trade worth entering

ES.4 Three Moves: table 1
What it is	Rent bands that are published, with stalls let by ballot. Price freedom for the cook, with Makan Vouchers for the households that need help, paid through the Community Development Councils' existing voucher system. A Relief-Hawker Corps, so a cook can take a day off without closing, using the two ways NEA already lets someone else run a stall. Buying together for cheaper supplies. Insurance first. And a Hawker Protection Floor, with the savings and cover other workers already have.
Who it is for	The floor: every stallholder at the pilot centres, and in time every hawker.	Who pays	The State, for the fee subsidy and the vouchers; the endowment, for the Corps and the cover.
In the Plan	Part II: rent bands, §2.2; the Corps, §2.7; the Protection Floor, §2.11.

2 · Move the knowledge before it is lost

ES.4 Three Moves: table 2
What it is	A Regulars' List at every government centre of the dishes each neighbourhood wants kept. A Culinary Seed Bank that documents endangered dishes well enough to cook from, pays masters to teach as Fellows at their own stalls, and proves each record by having a relief cook make the dish on the master's day off. Every graduate gets a real stall, financed equipment and a top-up to their income for 24 months. And a Taste Council of retired masters that guards quality without cameras.
Who it is for	The heritage tier: the stalls with a dish worth keeping, and the cooks who will carry it.	Who pays	Gifts and the endowment.
In the Plan	Parts III and V: the Regulars' List, §3.6; governance, §3.8.

3 · Let the business pay for succession

ES.4 Three Moves: table 3
What it is	The Succession Mortgage lets the incoming cook pay the retiring one out of future takings, with a protected income of $1,500 a month so the payment never pushes a successor out; the Family Name Royalty gives the master's children a ten-year stake in the name; and the Hawkers Succession Scheme gets the money it lacks, so that a retiring cook is paid for the stall's goodwill.
Who it is for	Retiring masters, their successors and their families.	Who pays	The successor, out of the stall's takings; the endowment carries the guarantee.
In the Plan	Part IV: the Succession Mortgage, §4.3; talking with the children, §4.7.

All three start at two pilot centres side by side and in the open, Chinatown Complex and Geylang Serai: the 'Lighthouses (the first two pilot centres, Chinatown Complex and Geylang Serai)', because they go first. Chinatown Complex starts only after its repairs and redecoration, which are late. In Year 2 the plan adds Tekka, making three pilot centres, and goes to five at most. Each centre runs the whole chain, from master to apprentice to a graduate's own stall, and each opens only if its own hawkers agree. Going beyond five waits until an independent evaluator confirms that five tests are met across all the centres (§6.5). Nothing in the plan asks the Seed Bank to run a centre, set a rent, licence a stall or watch anyone cook (§3.1).