"It's not just the cost of food," Matthew Gellar, Founding President of the National Food Truck Association told FOX Business. "It's the cost of running that truck, which is a lot of times, much more expensive than just running a small, quick serve restaurant,"
One food truck operator, who has been serving Mediterranean eats on 51st and Park Ave. for 50 years now, is forking over $1,000 a month on fuel alone, more than double on gas expenses last year. The electricity bill is also doubling. "It truly hurts every time I go to the gas pump," president of Uncle Gussy's food truck, Nicko Karagiorgos, told FOX Business. "We're paying double the price of gas for what we were paying. It is insane."
While prices for gas, supplies and ingredients have continued to climb, Uncle Gussy’s has yet to raise prices on their menu and instead taken the loss of profits. reached a four-decade high of 9.1%, food prices have increased even faster. Food costs jumped 10.4% in June compared to last year, according to data from the Labor Department. Certain categories, including staple ingredients for Uncle Gussy’s traditional Greek offerings like gyros and souvlaki, saw large gains.
The surging costs of fuel are pumping brakes on catering for events. Meatoss owner and chef Daniel Shkmorv tells FOX Business that he has to decline 30-40% of the events they are asked to do.said. "If my price was 100 people, 1200 dollars we will be there, we will serve them. Today, it must be 15, 16 or 17000 and or I either cancel or they just, you know. Move forward. So this is a big problem.
Everyone is battling higher gas prices
All food trucks need to do is park, and they will come.
is Gasoline more or less costly than Renting a building?
Why? All they have to do is park. Or is this LP cooking gas prices they're complaining about?
Well, who did they vote for?
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