CULINARY BUSINESS SURVEY OF MICRO SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE INFORMAL SECTOR EMPLOYEES POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MATARAM CITY, WEST NUSA TENGGARA

This research aims to describe community activities in the culinary business of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for informal sector workers after the Covid-19 pandemic in the city of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara Province. This research uses a survey method with a sample of 40 informal sector workers. The sample was determined using a non-probability sampling technique, namely by accidental sampling. Data analysis was carried out using quantitative and qualitative methods from data information obtained through interviews guided by a list of questions.

The business of informal workers in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is carried out in crowded places and generally opens their business/trade on the side of the road on the sidewalk with various processed food products. The average working hours for selling are on average 10 hours because there is a working hours restriction of up to 10 pm from the Mataram city government. The survey results showed that the income of most informal workers experienced an increase in income of between 60% and 80% after the Covid-19 pandemic, this had an impact on the income of informal workers and their household lives.  In terms of income received by informal sector workers in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), if measured by the Provincial Minimum Wage (UMP) for the province and city of Mataram and the prosperous standard of living according to Sajogyo's criteria, then the majority of informal sector workers are at a living level. or live a decent life with an average income percentage of (60%) with an average monthly income of IDR 4,500,000 or with a yearly per capita income of around 1,650 kg equivalent to rice (with an equivalent rice price of IDR 10,000 per kg) such as food traders , small stalls, fried banana sellers, young coconut ice sellers, mobile meatballs, and packaged rice traders). Meanwhile, the remaining 25% are at an average income level of IDR 5.5,000,000,- in the prosperous living category and as much as 15 %. are on the threshold of a fairly decent life. Overall, the average income of workers in the informal sector of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is above the Provincial Minimum Wage (UMP) and the city where the UMP is IDR 2,371,407,- (in 2022).