(Finance) – Over the last year, prices in the restaurant business grew by 4.1%, less than the overall increase which, thanks to the surge in energy, reached 4.8%. A fact highlighted by the Research Office of Fipe-Confcommercio, the Italian Federation of Public businesses, which has reworked the data released today by Istat.
“Catering businesses continue to maintain an inflationary profile shrewd also to accompany a recovery in consumption – underlines the Federation – that is struggling to take off. However, tensions on the purchase prices of raw materials and energy, which have reached record levels in the last few months, are also beginning to unload on the price lists of bars and restaurants. With locals struggling to fill up and bills nearly doubled, business owners are on the brink. First of all, it is necessary to give a boost to consumption by loosening the health bureaucracy and, on the other hand, to intervene immediately to mitigate the increase in costs for companies “.
“If you then look at the inflation data of the last 20 years – concludes Fipe – it turns out that the cliché according to which restaurants and bars have inflated prices for a long time was nothing but fake news. Since when the single currency entered into forcein fact, in the catering prices have risen more or less on line with general inflation “.