According to the National Restaurant Association, the annual food and labor inflation rate is 7.5%. This rate has a huge effect on not only large restaurants, but small restaurants as well. It is important to take into consideration when adjusting for the high costs of foods & gas to adjust for the inflation as well. A restaurant that does not regularly update its food prices is losing potential profits – the cost of creating and printing new menus is small when compared to the profits lost for not adjusting prices.

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