Blue States are the problem

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by boxcar

Contractors I have dealt with in the last 9 months or so all tell me about how much higher their costs are AND the shortages of products. Evidently, some libs here live in the comfy of their own self-made bubbles. The only exception to this rule I noticed lately was with Publix turkeys that sold this year for the same price per lb. as last year and even the year before that -- .49. I did a double take on the price! However, for the first time ever, I saw that Publix put a limit on the birds of 2 per household.

Loss leaders are great strategy in the grocery business.

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

Loss leaders are great strategy in the grocery business.

And it works. I don't ever recall buying a holiday bird only and walking out with it. I always bought some other things while there.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

Loss leaders are great strategy in the grocery business.

Unfortunately, we have a "loss leader" in the WH.

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by Tom

Unfortunately, we have a "lost leader" in the WH.

FTFY.

[fast4522]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

I buy 75k lbs of chicken a year. It’s up .39 a pound.

.49 depending on what month it is. You do the math.

Steak (we cut our own meat) is up over .60 a pound. I buy about 35k lbs a year. Do the math.

Turkey prices increased 14% this year. But the real problem is getting them. My distributor is allocating a third less this year. I have had to source them from Walmart/Aldi/Sams club plus my normal distributor. All at higher prices. I have increased my price this year to $15.99 a meal on Turkey day. I am sure we will hear about it.

I serve about 2000 meals on Thanksgiving day. It’s a crap-load of Turkey. This is just the tip of the list of shortages. Huge supply chain problems everywhere. I ordered a 2k dollar carpet cleaning machine a month ago. They cannot find enough truck drivers to deliver it. They tell me that flat out on the phone.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy...rices-expected

Here is a shot of the line to be seated at about 3p.

Just because your little bubble has yet to burst…….doesn’t mean your Biden team et al hasn’t screwed up the whole country

It has always been the plan, was before too.

[JustRalph]

https://dnyuz.com/2021/11/27/how-aus...es-in-america/

Blue cities too….more of the same

[Gamblin4ever]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

I buy 75k lbs of chicken a year. It’s up .39 a pound.

.49 depending on what month it is. You do the math.

Steak (we cut our own meat) is up over .60 a pound. I buy about 35k lbs a year. Do the math.

Turkey prices increased 14% this year. But the real problem is getting them. My distributor is allocating a third less this year. I have had to source them from Walmart/Aldi/Sams club plus my normal distributor. All at higher prices. I have increased my price this year to $15.99 a meal on Turkey day. I am sure we will hear about it.

I serve about 2000 meals on Thanksgiving day. It’s a crap-load of Turkey. This is just the tip of the list of shortages. Huge supply chain problems everywhere. I ordered a 2k dollar carpet cleaning machine a month ago. They cannot find enough truck drivers to deliver it. They tell me that flat out on the phone.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy...rices-expected

Here is a shot of the line to be seated at about 3p.

Just because your little bubble has yet to burst…….doesn’t mean your Biden team et al hasn’t screwed up the whole country

Ralph, how much do you think you'll charge for Christmas dinner this year?

[lamboguy]

i took 6 people to Capital Grill for Thanksgiving, with drinks and the tip i forked over $780. only 2 of us had a turkey dinner which ran $45 for 4 slices of white meat, stuffing, string beans, and some cranberry sauce. the other people had a stake or sea bass. and we had what they called a seafood tower (shrimp, lobster, and crab meat)

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by Gamblin4ever

Ralph, how much do you think you'll charge for Christmas dinner this year?

Probably the same as Thanksgiving…….at our other franchise locations.

We are one of the few GC’s that closes on Xmas.

It costs me a chunk of change, but my employees are very happy about it.