We'll buy some and it will be four to six weeks before we can find it again.
What's been missing is sometimes surprising: Cornstarch, for instance. Pizza boxes are among the non-food items that restaurants need, but are having a harder time sourcing. There's a shortage of cake boxes, cardboard containers, pizza boxes, paper bags and pint ice-cream cartons. We're thinking about buying a larger slicer and making our own bacon in-house," Perovic said.īusinesses struggle to source branded napkins, staff uniforms with logos and bamboo cocktail skewers. "The price has jumped, when you can find it. Josh Perovic at the Hemlock Burger Barn was stumped when looking for thick-cut bacon - and in a region rich in pork production. With August now here, fall is looming and the issue with supply shortages - both food and non-food - hasn't receded according to area chefs, restaurateurs and food operators who obtain goods from different sources than you and I when we visit a grocery store.Ĭambridge's Little Mushroom reports having trouble finding frozen crab pieces, dinner rolls and grainy Dijon mustard. "We increased our prices just last week," de Jong said. That means purchased goods will cost more for consumers, although he's held off doing that until recently. De Jong adds that flour and sugar - mainstays for a bakery - have increased 50 per cent in the last year.
Lard and shortening last year doubled in price without notice overnight," de Jong said. "And when something runs out, it feels like weeks before it is restocked."Ī 20-kg box he paid $40 for is now $85. "It's been extremely difficult to navigate the last couple of years. The co-owner of two Waterloo locations of Sweet and Savoury Pie Company has had trouble sourcing the porcine product - instrumental to making delicious pies - and when he does find it, the price has skyrocketed. For baker Henry de Jong, one glaring indication that we are not yet out of the pandemic is a lack of lard.
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