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Eating thali at your favourite hotel may cost you more

Rising vegetable prices might force hotel owners to hike rates of food items.

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Even as the current hike in the prices of vegetables is affecting the daily lives of people, it may soon affect your budget for eating out.

While some of the restaurants have already increased the food prices, the officials at the hoteliers association of Pune say that they will have to review the rates if the prices go on escalating.
There are places like the Asha Dining Hall at Apte Road who have hiked the prices of thali which had become imperative due to increase in the prices of vegetables. Asha Dining Hall manager, Dinkar Shanbhag, says, “Prices of all the vegetables, milk, transport, etc., have increased which is why we had to increase the rates.”

President of the hoteliers association of Pune, Ganesh Shetty, says, “We cannot raise the prices on the basis of price rise of two days. We will study the trend for the last 15-20 days and then decide if the rates need to be changed.”

“Even if the prices of vegetables are increased, onions prices have come down drastically, thus balancing our overall expense on buying raw materials. Hence, it is not on the agenda of the hotels to change the prices at this moment. The decision would be taken after about two weeks,” added Shetty.

However, some hotels are waiting for the prices of vegetables to stabilise over the next few days before deciding on the price of the thali. According to the owner of a food joint at Kalewadi, Subash Daga, most of his clients are staffers of information technology (IT) companies and college students.

“They will be highly upset if we increase the price of the thali, but we would do it only if the rates do not stabilise after about two weeks,” Daga said.

The owner of Laxmi Road-based Poona Guest House, Charudutta Sarpotdar, said, “This is not the way prices are hiked. Before hiking the rates, we have to think about our clients who are of utmost importance to us. They cannot be made to suffer. We will change it only if the trend is consistent for the coming six months.”

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