not true. have you ever studied milton friedman, the father of the monetary school of economics. provide a citation for your remark which is just plainly incorrect.
The cost of grains, coffee are near 9 year lows, Meats, softs are way off the highs and with reduction of fuel, freight charges are cheaper. But grocery stores have not come down in cost of food and I don't see restaurants going down in cost either, grocery stores simple don't make much after all of their cost to stay open, like 5-10% profits. So I just think it is a time where they either are making more or wholesalers are not passing on the savings. What a racket with pizza, I often wonder what it really costs to make one pizza without the overhead, then add overhead, is it possible to be netting $5 bucks a pizza? Coffee at 9 year lows, you see Starbucks going down in price, hell no, their stock should be triple.
The restaurant business is pretty low margin usually. If pizza was such a "racket", you would see a lot of rich pizzaria owners. Pizza prices at many of the chain restaurants are comparable or lower in some cases than they were 10-15 years ago. Your employees are usually stealing, food costs, payroll, rent, equipment upkeep, marketing, etc.
You own a restaurant, your office should be big enough for sleeper, you are so right the employees rip you off out back door. If I opened a restaurant, it be next to my laundromat, and restaurant close at 3pm.
you need to own a chain of pizza stores and rotate your personnel between stores and have cameras all over the place.
Pizza is a pretty interesting case study...Little Caesar's can sell a decent sized pizza for $5...Yet, go into any locally owned pizzeria and it's probably close to $5 for a slice...Economies of scale I suppose.
I would say that I've paid roughly $4.00-$4.75 (not including sales tax) at about the last six pizzeria's I've visited in the past few years...OTOH, I can get a slice at Costco for $2.00 and it's not bad...Where? Midwest US
sounds like you added a whole lot of toppings including a naked woman. even in NY: After cleaning up the data and doing my best to find prices for just cheese/plain/regular slices I found that the mean price was $2.33 with a standard deviation of $0.52 and a median price of $2.45. The base subway fare is $2.50 but is actually $2.38 after the 5% bonus for putting at least $5 on a MetroCard. http://www.jaredlander.com/2014/05/average-cost-of-a-new-york-slice-in-2014/