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Originally Posted by Aloha1
In case you haven't noticed, the price of food and labor is rapidly increasing. Inflation was 4.5% last month alone. Wages and food cost for our restaurants in TV will continue to rise and therefore so will prices. Welcome to the new reality.
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so much for the insistence that inflation is caused by a high minimum wage. Minimum wage is the same $8.65/hour here as it was last year. It doesn't go up until September.
This has nothing to do with inflation. Farmshed's prices aren't higher than they were this time last year, because they didn't exist this time last year. They're a local-centric restaurant.
For those who venture beyond the golden arches once or twice a year, local-centric restaurants tend to offer food from higher quality, smaller farms better managed with better quality feed and living conditions of the animals, and locally sourced vegetables and fruits are less likely to be GMO, with fewer pesticides introduced into the soil, than getting it all from a food distribution warehouse somewhere in Tallahassee. And yes, they do tend to be more expensive in general.
That said - if Farmshed had chosen to put their restaurant outside the town square and instead built up the block (there's a vacant building with a terrific parking lot they could've gotten for cheap, most likely), they would've paid a lot less for rent, and they could've passed some of that savings to their customers.