I’m wondering if it is time to stock up before they do!
Increases in food in general or increases in price?
I can’t say I’ve noticed a price increase yet but it’s bound to happen.
There’s normally a delay as prices are fixed for a period between retailers and suppliers, so once they reset, retailers will have higher prices that they will pass on.
Compensation is planned in with the strong Frank and weak $
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Hey, this number is extremely interesting.
“The restaurant and catering industry in particular, which accounts for 50% of meat consumption, has always been reluctant to declare prohibited production methods.
If half the meat is distributed via restaurants and catering, why supermarkets get all the attention?
Because they account for the other half? 
Does half of your meals come from restaurant or delivery food?
Hmmm…does that mean those restaurants will reveal on the menu just where their meat comes from?
Some comes literally from the back of a lorry:
I’m sure there’s a little asterisk against most menu items in Swiss restaurants that relate to a footnote at the bottom with “Herkunft” (origin) and a list of where various produce comes from?
From Swiss info:
False origin meat on Swiss restaurant menus, while heavily regulated, has historically been a significant issue, with surveys finding over 40% of establishments selling mislabeled food products
Selling US meat as CH at a huge profit must be very tempting to some restaurateurs.
I always smile at this part of the menu.
Supply chains are a mess. I guess it’s fine that 80% of times the meat effectively comes from the place the menu says. But, production and logistics disruptions happen. Prices go up and down.
If one week, there’s no meat from the declared country of origin, I have never seen newly printed menus or the server telling “this week the beef is from X country”. There’s no need for bad people, only market realities.
Anyway, we all play the game of suspension of disbelief, and enjoy the illusion of a perfect life. Questions? No thanks, they only lead to more questions, uncertainty and unhappiness. I will believe what the menu says and have a merry day.
I guess it doesn’t matter as long as the standards are maintained. If the restaurant states that the meat is coming from xyz in the EU but actually comes from abc in the EU, where the standards match those of Switzerland, then fine. But if it’s coming from the US where it’s pumped full of gunk, then it’s not so fine.
I just can’t suspend belief, which is why I don’t eat at restaurants anymore, except for trusted local venues where I know the (local) supplies are a badge of great pride.
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Well…the initial question.
I have not seen any recent price increase.
The last relevant change was the shrinkflation a bit after covid. Minced beef packages came in 400g bags instead of 500g. Pork chops down to 3-4 per pack from 5-6.
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I saw this weekend that the price of cooking oil is down from around CHF 4.25 a litre to CHF 3.35 in our local Coop.
Maybe to cushion any price increases down the line, they’ll first stop doing the “buy 2 or more” offers and similar bulk reductions? That way they wouldn’t need to raise prices directly at least for a while.
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