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.
He didn’t point out taxes rising in the socialist hellhole he lives in.
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.
The cost of worker comp insurance in CA. is out of control also!!
“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.]
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.
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!
Ingredients are <30%
And leases