While oil prices tumble, fast food vendors are engaged in a flurry of price increases. Following MacDonald’s price increases of as much as 20 percent announced late last month, as of Dec. 17 Burger King also increased the prices of some of its products by as much as 25 percent. In response, the Consumers’ Foundation is calling on consumers to boycott the restaurants and not eat there.
With the present fall in international oil prices, transport costs have decreased. According to Burger King, however, the international cost of beef has increased by 40 percent, and white chicken meat has gone up by 10 percent. This, together with increases in rent and staffing costs, has left them with no alternative but to raise prices.
(Liberty Times, translated by Paul Cooper)
油價崩跌,速食業卻掀起漲風!繼麥當勞上月底宣布漲價,漲幅最高達百分之二十,十二月十七日起漢堡王也調漲部分產品價格,漲幅最高達百分之二十五。對此,消基會呼籲消費者拒吃抵制。
Photo: Wei Yi-chia, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報記者魏怡嘉
目前國際油價大跌,運輸成本下降,但漢堡王表示,國際牛肉價格漲四成,白肉雞漲一成多,加上租金、人事成本增加,不得不調漲。
(自由時報)
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