Skyrocketing price of diesel pushed prices of commodities including foodgrains, vegetables, and edible oil by 20%
Nagpur. The taste buds have gone tasteless!! Eating out has become costlier, especially in Nagpur. The hoteliers in the Second Capital have hiked prices of food and beverages following the rise in fuel prices and commodities. The skyrocketing price of diesel has pushed prices of commodities including foodgrains, vegetables, and edible oil in recent past for varying reasons..
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Saturday 22 Feb. 2025
According to Angad Arora, Director, Hotel Centre Point, food lovers in hotels are increasing rapidly. As a result of this, the trend of new restaurants, dhabas, lawn-cum-hotels is also increasing fast in the city and district. But now those who eat in hotels are getting a setback. In the last few days, hotel operators have increased the prices of food by 10-15 percent. If the prices of raw materials continue to rise like this, there may be an increase of additional 10 percent soon. Hotel operators are increasing the prices very thoughtfully so that the customers do not get angry. They say that although the prices of raw materials have increased by 20 percent, but they have increased the prices only by 10-15 percent.
Hotel operators say that today the prices of flour, rice to salt have increased. Milk has become costlier by Rs 10 per litre. The prices of non-veg items have also increased in quick succession. In such a situation, it is becoming difficult to serve customers food at low rates. The right effort has been fulfilled by the gas cylinder. The cost of a commercial cylinder has almost doubled in the recent past. The Rs 1500 cost of cylinder has gone up to the level of Rs 2,500 in a jiffy.
Cost pressure:
Hotel operators say that they had endured a lot of pressure to increase the cost of raw materials, but now it has gone out of bounds, so most of the hotel and restaurant operators have decided to increase the rate by 10-15 percent in the first phase.
