Retrenched M’sia Pilot Open Burger Stall selling Smashed Delicious Patties
A former Malaysian Pilot, Mohammed Naeem Md Nassir aware that he could no longer keep his job in April this year where he has been a pilot with Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAS) from 2014 until 2018 before securing a job with Oman Air in 2018. Where he received the termination letter from Oman Air this year because of the pandemic and he knows that the aviation industry will take time to recover from its losses.
Therefore, he took up freelancing drone videography but it was sustainable as it is a niche market as later while he and his wife were at home during the lockdown, they find that a lot of people are craving burgers and they just happen to have some idea of burgers they ate before at Oman. Where this burger in Oman server smashed patties which are famous there.
Thus, Mohammed Naeem started to venture into the burger business and founded his own burger stall known as Smashed which is located in Shah Alam and has been operating for 2 months now. The burger he is selling is an affordable option with the same quality as the expensive version of Oman.
Currently, his stall is being helped by his wife and he has watched many tutorials online and practiced making this burger in his kitchen every night for a few weeks in order to create this perfect burger. Naeem also mentioned that the transition from a pilot to selling burgers was drastic, as he is used to being comfortable in the cockpit, managing switches, and flying planes and now constantly standing by the side of a hot grill.
So keep up the spirit ya Naeem, and for those who are interested, you can find his Smashed stall which is located inside a restaurant called Nasi Kandar Zubair Bistro in Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam.