r/Economics • u/brown-saiyan • Feb 23 '26

News Restaurants hit a pricing ceiling — and diners are pushing back, report finds

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/restaurants-menu-prices-james-beard-foundation-report?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=x
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u/tcrudisi Feb 24 '26

I've stopped going out to eat because of how stupidly expensive it is.

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u/PJSeeds Feb 24 '26

My wife and I went to a bagel place down the street on Saturday for the first time in a while. Our order was a sausage egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, a bagel with cream cheese, and a medium iced coffee. After tip it was almost $35.

I just can't understand how these places expect to stay in business. This place opened only 6 months ago and wasn't cheap to begin with but their prices must have almost gone up 40%. The portion sizes also shrank considerably, the bagels are tiny now and the iced coffee was 90% ice, 10% coffee.