As the warm weather rolls in and Americans prepare for summer barbeques and game days, they might just be shocked at the price of their favorite staple: chicken wings.
Inflation has soared since President Joe Biden, 79, took office while the US still grapples with the ongoing pandemic and supply shortages.
The prices of groceries have soared a shocking 14.3 percent, causing bigger shopping bills and inflated menu prices.
Jeff Good and Dan Blumenthal, the owners of Sal and Mookies – an NYC-themed restaurant chain in Mississippi – have been forced to sell chicken wings at market value – a menu discretion usually only saved for luxury items, such as lobster.
The popular menu item of a saucy basket of 15 wings retailed at $13.95 before the Covid 19 outbreak, but can now go up to $27.95 – or what Good estimates to be the ‘real cost’ of $34.
The restaurant menu now simply states that the wings are market price, and leaves the actual price blank, next to a note that states: ‘Due to national shortages, our wings prices fluctuate.’
‘We have never, ever seen anything like what we’re seeing right now,’ Good, who has been a restaurant owner for almost 30 years, told the Orange County Register. Good also said he is considering taking the item off the menu.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail, Alyssa Guzman