Thursday 4 August 2022 10:25 PM Rashays restaurant owner Rami Ykmour fumes over beef, lettuce prices, says ... trends now
A 'disgusted' Australian restaurant owner has gone ballistic over the cost of meat and vegetables, fuming that claims of floods still causing price hikes are 'BS'.
In a passionate video, Rashays founder Rami Ykour argued that ongoing labour shortages are 'the real reason' for price rises.
'I'm going to go on a bit of a rant here. I am disgusted. I'm really disappointed with what's going out there,' he said.
Mr Ykmour angrily claimed he would lose customers if he passed on the high costs of lettuce and beef to customers in his 34 stores.
'Just to get the lettuce out to our restaurant is costing so much money, and there's no way customers will come back if we pass on that cost.
He told Daily Mail Australia that passing on the higher costs could add up to a third to the cost of meals. 'We don't follow the giants like that here,' he said.
Vegetables, fruit, breakfast cereals, bread, eggs, oils, butter and margarine have all jumped sharply in price in the last year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
A 'disgusted' Australian restaurant owner, Rami Ykour of Rashays, has gone ballistic over the cost of meat and vegetables, fuming that claims of floods still causing price hikes are 'BS
The ABS released its quarterly Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures - the key measure of inflation - on Wednesday morning, showing a 6.1 per cent jump over the last year.
The biggest jump in an everyday grocery item was the cost of veges, up 7.3 per cent in the last year, due by many accounts to the continued flooding in southeast Queensland and New South Wales.
In July Mr Ykmour paid $144 for a box of 18 iceberg lettuces, at $8 a head.
'The beef prices have also gone through the roof, too.
'You know what they tell us, "let's blame the floods". You know what, I call that? BS!'
Consumers have been hit hard by rising prices and one restaurant owner says he will lose too many customers if he passes the higher prices on
In a passionate video Rashays founder Mr Ykour argued that ongoing labour shortages are 'the real reason' for price rises
'The real problem is we're short labour ... there's no-one out there to pick cos lettuce. There's no-one to pick iceberg.
'There's
