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To: CFW
Ingredients are often the smallest part of the price of restaurant food.

Costs of taxes, restaurant upkeep, labor, and advertising, are usually more important.

Even with the increased prices, I would bet the cost of the food, to the restaurant, for this burrito, is less than $5.

3 posted on 03/13/2024 1:14:29 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain

He didn’t point out taxes rising in the socialist hellhole he lives in.


5 posted on 03/13/2024 1:17:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marktwain

California has high fast food minimum wage — $22 / hr I think.

Energy is a big cost of production, too (heating, cooling, refrigeration, cooking, truck fuel). CA has the highest energy prices in the country.


10 posted on 03/13/2024 1:22:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: marktwain

The cost of worker comp insurance in CA. is out of control also!!


18 posted on 03/13/2024 1:36:53 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: marktwain

“Costs of taxes, restaurant upkeep, labor, and advertising, are usually more important.”

That’s one big reason I like to eat at home.

Plus it’s generally WAY less salty. [Saves on gas, too]

[Screws the gov’t on taxes as I’m working for myself.]


24 posted on 03/13/2024 1:50:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: marktwain
The local pizza joint had GREAT food, but went out of business maybe 6 years ago. They were able to handle the increase in ingredients by raising their prices a bit.

But then Washington state passed the minimum wage thing. The owner didn't feel right about paying his new workers the same as his old workers, so he had to increase everyone's wages.

That, along with new zoning and increased rents he finally had to close it. Lots of good memories at that place.

He sold his pizza dough through the nearby small grocery store for years afterwards, but not the same as going to the local pizzeria.

25 posted on 03/13/2024 1:50:31 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: marktwain

Come on man! Its shrinkflation. Folks, the tortillas are getting smaller. There’s lesh smengredients in the burtito. What a rip off! Like the gas shations, you jush need to charge less man!


27 posted on 03/13/2024 1:51:45 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republict)
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To: marktwain

Ingredients are <30%


33 posted on 03/13/2024 2:15:21 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: marktwain

And leases


40 posted on 03/13/2024 3:18:04 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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