| Prices are expected to remain high this year for many major commodities, according to research from the US Department of Agriculture and the National Restaurant Association. NRA's 2013 Restaurant Industry Forecast states that in 2012 higher food prices continued to squeeze operators' bottom lines and they will likely increase again in 2013.
"After jumping 8.1 percent in 2011, the strongest annual increase in more than three decades, average wholesale food prices rose by more than 2 percent in 2012,” said Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the association’s Research & Knowledge Group. "During the last six years, we've seen average wholesale food prices jump nearly 30 percent with the only decline – a 4 percent drop – occurring in 2009, so rising food costs have and will continue to be a challenge for restaurant operators."..............................................Full Article: Source
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