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Last month, producer prices rose the most in 13 years. It means that the cost of producing something has increased that much, which is reflected in consumer prices in stages with time lag. In fact, the price of processed food is already rising one after another, and the price of eating out is also soaring. Whether you're shopping and making your own at home or going out to eat, it means that the burden on both has increased.



Reporter Han Ji-yeon reported.



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A sushi restaurant in Seoul recently raised the price of sashimi by 1,000 won to receive '11,000 won'.



Because the price of sashimi and vegetables has gone up too much.



[Sashimi restaurant president: I had no choice but to do it by 1,000 won (I raised it.) The price of live fish has risen too much. Vegetables are too expensive and everything… I don't know why it's going up like this.]



A franchise snack shop also raised the price of gimbap, tteokbokki, and ramen from 300 won to 500 won last month.



[Franchise snack shop employee: In the case of cucumbers, 20,000 won is 65,000 won. Everything keeps going up. Carrots, sesame leaves. So are the kale leaves. All of the ingredients have



gone up

.]

This year, as manufacturing costs, such as grain prices, raw material prices, labor costs, and logistics costs, have risen in all directions, restaurant and food companies, whose profitability has deteriorated, are reflecting these costs in their prices.



Ramen, tofu, milk, flour, sweets, bread, and cooking oil have already risen, so the consumer price index for processed food last month was the largest in 6 years and 11 months.



[Jeongyujin / Seoul Yangcheon: Food prices are a rattling rise as in catering inflation to range in price catering prices double, double blast dwaeseo times greater the feeling]



In recent years, the typical people counted as food canned tuna and rice wine, juljulyi prices also franchise chicken are uploading.



If some companies raise prices, competitors will raise dominoes, so the pressure to increase prices for restaurants and food ingredients is expected to increase in the future.



In particular, as international grain prices continue to rise, the food price burden, which is directly related to the price of ordinary people, is expected to increase.



(Video editing: Jeon Min-gyu, VJ: Jung Min-goo)