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Diners returning to their favorite restaurants after a pandemic-forced break will experience sticker shock upon receiving their check. The cost of dining out, like grocery shopping and fueling up a car, has increased.
The return to indoor dining hasn’t been the savior that restaurant owners expected. Sourcing basic supplies remains constrained by regional and global events, including a fire at the Darigold plant in Idaho, avian flu spreading throughout the United States, and a strain on the global supply of wheat, cooking oil and fuel caused by the war in Ukraine.
