Outside of Tampa, Florida, Ashley Simmons runs a catering, restaurant and soon a bar.

However, it has been delayed due to sky-high prices and labor shortages.

- Seeing the change in food prices and everything else has been an eye opener, says Ashley Simmons.

Ashley is a conservative, raised in the restaurant business and has three children.

She says that, albeit on a small scale, she knows everything about what American society now faces.

This area has perhaps the country's highest inflation, over 10 percent on an annual basis.

- When the price of chicken quadruples, it is not possible to plan for.

There is no return to what we consider to be normal.

The minimum wage, what we used to pay a dishwasher used to be $ 10 an hour.

Now it's about $ 15.

She has slimmed down the menu to save.

She currently has 50 employees but is constantly looking for more.

On this particular day, two job interviews were booked by.

- It is difficult to find people who want to work.

Due to the Biden administration, it has become easy to live on grants, she says.