Wednesday, March 13, 2024

S.F.’s best burritos now costs $22.

Ricardo Lopez was long reluctant to raise the prices at his Mission District restaurant La Vaca Birria, where he serves succulent beef braised in a red broth packed into burritos and tacos. But as of late, he simply has no other choice to remain afloat. "I wish there was something else that I could do," he said. Just like seemingly every other restaurant in the Bay Area, prices have been increasing at La Vaca Birria, and customers aren't always accepting of the change. So in a recent Instagram post, Lopez addressed a customer complaint about high prices and broke down the reasons his popular grilled cheese birria burrito has gone from $11 a couple of years ago to its current price of $22.

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Corporate Price Gouging trickles down to small businesses.

What did you expect?

But hey, at least the mega corps have record profits, right? ....right?

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-14 10:27 AM

There's a convenient store that I frequent several times a week close to where I live. An elderly Mexican lady there has been making homemade burritos for over 40 years. She makes 400 to 500 burritos a day and starts selling them @5am for $7 bucks each. All the early morning construction workers, police officers etc. get in line to buy them. At 2pm they go to half price of $3.50 each to get rid of the remaining 40 or 50 burritos that are left; that's when I buy them. Excellent burritos, been eating them for years.

#2 | Posted by shane at 2024-03-15 12:59 PM

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