The price of pizza is rising in New York City, a destination world-famous for its delicious slices.
“It’s a little bit scary at times,” said Slone Elias, a customer of 2 Bros. Pizza. “Eventually it’s going to reflect in rising food prices at every restaurant.”
The pizza shop lists $.50 pizza slice prices on a menu board just below its iconic red marquee boasting “$1 Pizza,” the New York Post reports.
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“Inflation is affecting every single ingredient, every single item we use. Flour, cheese, tomatoes, gloves, paper goods, paper plates, napkins. Everything. Labor is definitely up, as well,” 2 Bros. Pizza co-founder Oren Halali said.
The owner of Staten Island’s Mona Lisa Pizzeria, Lenny Giordano, agrees that prices are getting out of hand.
“I can list about 200 items that I’m buying for my store every week and every one of them went up 50 to 200 percent (over the past year),” he wrote in a social media post addressed to patrons, listing staggering price jumps. “Our profit margin goes down every day … We’re trying not to scare people away with higher prices. If we raise prices according to rising food costs going up, we’ll soon have no customers walking through the door.”
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A whopping 97% of casual dining eateries experienced delivery delays or food shortages in recent months, and 81% had to change menu offerings due to the shortages and delays, according to the National Restaurant Association. Some 88% of casual dining establishments reported lower profit margins than from before the COVID-19 pandemic.
