San Francisco restaurant owner sparks outrage after charging $22 for burrito Unsplash: frankcreative360San Francisco-based Mexican restaurant La Vaca Birria has received criticism after doubling their prices for burritos from $11 to $22. The San Francisco-based restaurant La Vaca Birria caused uproar after they doubled the price of their burritos from $11 to $22. The reason, owner Ricardo Lopez argued, is not in an attempt to make more money, but an attempt to continue to break even as prices for everything rise. Their signature burrito is the most popular and nearly every ingredient that goes into it has doubled in cost. That\u2019s the reason the owner said its price has, too. \u201cBefore COVID, [onions] were like $9 a sack at Restaurant Depot, I used to pick them up. During COVID, and after, it was $40 dollars. Right now, it\u2019s $80,\u201d Lopez told NBC News. The reason for the high costs is because of Lopez\u2019s decision to buy premium beef to make his birria, as well as making all of the ingredients from scratch \u2013 except for the tortillas which he gets from a local shop. \u201cThe food that you make in your pueblo back in Mexico, it\u2019s very labor intensive,\u201d said Lopez. \u201cAnd the only way you get that here is at those fine dining restaurants, doing everything from scratch.\u201d People spark outrage after restaurant double prices People have taken to social media to express their feelings about the big price increase, and they were not impressed. One person wrote: \u201c$22 for beans rice and cheese with some meat? LMAOOOOOO Bro, naw\u2026 Support your local Taco Truck making these all day same size for 8-9$..\u201d A second person wrote: \u201cIf that\u2019s what he has to do break even then I predict he is well on his way to being out of business sooner rather than later. Pack it in, Senor Lopez.\u201d \u201cGod damn inflation. No burritos should cost that much. Hell, even $11 is a stretch. It\u2019s supposed to be a poor man\u2019s food, a working man\u2019s food,\u201d another user wrote. However, several people stood up for Lopez and his price increases. One person argued: \u201cMy view \u2013 if he sells the right mix of $22 burritos to customers willing and buying, then that is great for his business and his customers.\u201d \u201cA doubling in price all at once means he\u2019s been absorbing the costs on behalf of his customers, hoping that costs would come down. I hope he didn\u2019t wait too long,\u201d a second person wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
San Francisco restaurant owner sparks outrage after charging $22 for burrito Unsplash: frankcreative360San Francisco-based Mexican restaurant La Vaca Birria has received criticism after doubling their prices for burritos from $11 to $22. The San Francisco-based restaurant La Vaca Birria caused uproar after they doubled the price of their burritos from $11 to $22. The reason, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}