{"id":5033,"date":"2024-05-01T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:35:14","slug":"food-atm-sells-meals-from-50-fils-to-3-dirhams-with-an-18-percent-profit-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/food-atm-sells-meals-from-50-fils-to-3-dirhams-with-an-18-percent-profit-margin\/","title":{"rendered":"Food-ATM sells meals from 50 fils to 3 dirhams (with an 18 percent profit margin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Tala Zoubi&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AJMAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES \u2013 Food-ATM sells 10-12,000 meals daily, ranging from 50 fils to 3 dirhams per meal, to low-income workers around the UAE.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner of Food-ATM, Ayesha Khan, said \u201cOur profit percentage, which is 18% on every sale, is constant despite any fluctuations in the market.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan purchases products close to expiry from wholesalers to keep operating costs low.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the holy month of Ramadan, customers from around the UAE purchase meals in bulk from the business for donations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan has received over 50 awards and recognition from the government and private sector and is a Guinness World Record holder. She said that what motivates her are \u201cthose smiles and thank-you\u2019s coming from all those we help. Their food expenses are under control and lower than what they used to spend, allowing them to send more money home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food ATM operates in Ajman, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah and soon in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tala Zoubi&nbsp; AJMAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES \u2013 Food-ATM sells 10-12,000 meals daily, ranging from 50 fils to 3 dirhams per meal, to low-income workers around the UAE.&nbsp; The owner of Food-ATM, Ayesha Khan, said \u201cOur profit percentage, which is 18% on every sale, is constant despite any fluctuations in the market.\u201d&nbsp; Khan purchases products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25],"class_list":{"0":"post-5033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-sharjah-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}