Sounds like the Chinese restaurant that I normally go to. Over the last two years the dishes went from ~$15 each to ~$20 each. A 33% increase is huge. At first I was giving the benefit of the doubt that ingredients went up but I think they blew past that.
In addition to the price raise, the containers are coming less full now too. Labor day I orders and the Pepper Steak was only about 70-80% as full as it used to be. I used to always have enough left overs for lunch the next day but not this time.
It's caused me to order a lot less. We're at the point now where I have to want to get it over casually getting it instead of cooking at home. .
Yeah Lucy's Pho still came in an enormous bowl so 3 meals out of it for her but even that was 18.99 instead of 13.99 pre covid.
They do lots of take out business too so while I doubt they have all their pre Covid business back, they're not decimated. Not that tv's are expensive these days but they have 4 new flat screens up now, we actually saw them in boxes the last time we ate there and they're up now. Even with cheaper tv's that's at least 1200-1400 bucks for those 4 tv's. So they're not broke.
But I get it, the fancy hamburger place nearby went under during the first year of Covid, and so did 2 other restaurants there(Sunnyvale towncenter downtown Sunnyvale). Even the Macy's went under although I think that was inevitable even pre Covid.
But yeah the prices have gone up higher than they probably need to and I don't buy it's due to labor costs again they had a cook and 2 waiters front staff that was it.