[Distantly Related] Lunch at Red Lobster a few days ago. The usual basket of cheese biscuits arrived. I opened up the napkin and saw they were about half the size they used to be. Their “Admirals Family Feast” went from $41.99 to $46.99, and crab-stuffed mushrooms reduced to six from eight, for the same price.
Between the shortage of help and this “transitory” inflation, I’d hate to be a manager of these types of operations nowadays.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/15960414/co-op-boss-warns-food-shortages-worst-ever-seen/
Here is an article about the situation in the UK.