The recent USDA forecast of food prices (3-4 increase of Consumer Price Index) triggered a round of national and local stories on dining ramifications:
- USDA: Food CPI and Expenditures: Analysis and Forecasts of the CPI for Food
- Marketwatch: Food prices climb further at grocery stores
- NPR: After Wild Weather, Higher Food Prices On Horizon
- USA Today: Restaurant inflation is edging up
- Bloomberg: Agriculture Output Must Grow 70% to Meet World Demand, UN Says
- Regional
- Asbury Park Press: Rising prices tough for local restaurants to swallow
- Coloradoan: Nationwide price spike jolts Fort Collins coffee shops, drinkers
- Gothamist: Restaurant Prices Are Jumping In 2011
- Orlando Sentinel: Price increases are on the menu at restaurants 2011
- Palm Beach County eateries forced to swallow higher food prices
- Finally, Bloomberg restaurant critic Ryan Sutton is maintaining a new blog tracking price increases at prominent restaurants: The Price Hike
