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Slow down and share a table: How young cafe owners go against the grain in a cut-throat industry 

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(Clockwise from top left) Bingo bakery, Middle Child Wine Bar, Uptown Cafe and  Ceres Haus.

(Clockwise from top left) Bingo, Middle Child Wine Bar, Uptown and Ceres Haus.

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SINGAPORE – There comes a time in a young person’s life when it all gets too much.

You have attended one too many meetings, failed yet again to scale the mound of unread e-mails and cancelled plans in order to clock overtime. The thought of hauling your overworked body back to the office fills you with abject dread.

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