We are back here on Fast Casual Nation, the podcast that started at all and the number one restaurant business podcast out there so welcome

into the show guys shara how are you i am doing great i'm cold it's a little chilly here in

kansas city finally so i'm in my sweater and and trying to stay warm what is going on with the

chiefs i'm not insuring what's happening here there are there's

things that i have never seen ls we are back did you see our game last night we are a good game

back it was an amazing game our second we're a second half team my friends and uh we did not disappoint

there you go well hey listen they always get better as the, as the season,

you know, rages on. So yes, maybe, maybe that's it, you know, from that side of things.

Hey, let's talk about a few things over on Fast Casual Nation. And one, of course, is this area around

staffing, food costs. We're starting to see this force a little bit in terms of

price hikes. First of all, when you look at this, when you guys wrote this story, is this a

isolated incident around certain categories or is it very specific to fast casual? What's happening?

No, it is. It is food service operators in general, food and

beverage. So toasted this report. Everybody in the industry are raising prices. Obviously,

the tariffs are affecting them. The food costs are affecting them. Over 85% say labor issues are

affecting them. So they are raising prices. But what's interesting is that most of the people

who they interviewed for this survey are still positive when they're looking ahead 12 months.

They have a positive outlook on business. In reference to the operators. Yeah, the operators are

saying, okay, yeah, we're having to raise all these prices, but we're

controlling the controllables, and we still think we're going to have some success in the coming

year.

Interesting.

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