'On a $5 dollar burger, maybe you make 50 cents': Atlanta restaurants balance beefing-up prices and keeping customers
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Ongoing Series: Pretty Penny
- Part 1 It’s never been more expensive to buy a car in Georgia — if you can find one
- Part 2 In Atlanta, same house, same street — but twice the mortgage payment
- Part 3 'On a $5 dollar burger, maybe you make 50 cents': Atlanta restaurants balance beefing-up prices and keeping customers
- Part 4 What happens when you take years of pent-up travel demand, and charge more money for fewer services?
- Part 5 The rising costs of bringing up babies in Georgia
Labor. Rent. Beef. Buns.
All the way down to the ketchup for your fries, going out for that burger has gotten more expensive. But how much more?
That depends on how much finessing a restaurant owner can do. But they’re restaurateurs, not magicians.
For the latest in our “Pretty Penny” series about what things now cost, WABE’s “All Things Considered” team goes out to lunch.