date:Jan 17, 2014
o offset higher costs for everything from beef to labor - are expected to account for 2.4 percent of the sales growth in 2014, Hudson Riehle, the NRA's senior vice president of research and knowledge, told Reuters in an interview.
Higher food and labor costs are expected to pressure profits again this year. Costs for popular items like beef are trending higher and operators are also grappling with minimum wage increases and costs related to implementing the new U.S. healthcare law.
The restaur