How a century-old bakery is weathering
inflation in the US’s worst hit city
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/28/2022 10:29:57 PM
For 106 years, La Segunda has baked bread in Ybor City, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida. It’s a Cuban bakery where the loaves are scored with palmetto fronds and reach 36” in custom ovens. Between the longstanding traditions and myths that shape the place, the owners that span four generations have never seen prices rise as they have in the past year. Across America, inflation affected the food industry acutely, and in the case of La Segunda, the cost of wheat doubling in just 12 months left a bruise.(Snip)The jump in cost added nearly $40,000 to overhead each month, and it left More to navigate just how to raise
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For 106 years, La Segunda has baked bread in Ybor City, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida. It’s a Cuban bakery where the loaves are scored with palmetto fronds and reach 36” in custom ovens. Between the longstanding traditions and myths that shape the place, the owners that span four generations have never seen prices rise as they have in the past year. Across America, inflation affected the food industry acutely, and in the case of La Segunda, the cost of wheat doubling in just 12 months left a bruise.(Snip)The jump in cost added nearly $40,000 to overhead each month, and it left More to navigate just how to raise
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The article describes the disastrous effects of inflation on businesses, workers, and food banks, all run by minorities who were prosperous under Trump, but who now struggle. The article is sponsored by the 11th Hour Project, which was started by the wife of radical leftist Obama insider and ("some say") intellectual property thief Eric Schmidt of Google, whose personal worth exceeds $25 billion. Nowhere does the article say the inflation is the deliberate result of US government policy, using the Green energy policies touted by 11th Hour Project as a pretext.