{"id":80474,"date":"2025-08-20T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80474\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:46:07","slug":"why-are-food-prices-rising-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80474\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are food prices rising so fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Business owners have also had to grapple with a rise in the minimum wage, as well as higher employer National Insurance Contributions, which they&#8217;ve had to pay since April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jane Matthews, operations director of the Ice Cream Farm in Cheshire, said her business is constantly having to absorb rising costs, from payroll to food to energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re being squeezed on all corners,&#8221; she told BBC News. But, she added, the company was conscious that &#8220;customers&#8217; budgets are also squeezed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the company felt it had no choice but to pass on these costs to their customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to make these decisions now so you can keep going, [otherwise] you might not to be able to employ more people or [have to] close certain things during the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Research published on Tuesday showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y042g11yvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many people are cutting back on fast food and casual dining<\/a>, replacing it with smaller treats like coffee or a bar of chocolate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Matthews said she had noticed this through the number of picnics on the farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People might bring a basic picnic and supplement it with a bag of chips for the kids,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we&#8217;ve embraced that in the hope that they will still spend here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business owners have also had to grapple with a rise in the minimum wage, as well as higher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-80474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}