Imbiss customers in Munich have to digest the snack shock - price annoyance for small meals

Created: 07/05/2022 05:03

By: Nina Bautz

Pauline (30, middle), project manager, with colleagues at the Stachus.

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For a small snack in between, many providers now charge a large bill.

The customers have to digest the snack shock in Munich.

Munich – At these prices, the roll gets stuck in your throat!

The schnitzel roll for almost five euros, doner kebab for 6.50 euros, the salad for almost twelve euros and the fruit cup for more than four euros (see table below)!

The current price explosion does not stop at the small dishes to take away.

Snack shock in Munich!

Munich: Many customers have to digest the snack shock

Food on hand is very practical and time-saving, especially for the lunch break at work or for the train journey.

But since the Ukraine war at the latest, so much has been piling up that you can hardly afford snacks anymore.

"Although the to-go business was not so badly affected by the corona pandemic, the raw material and energy prices as well as the increased wage costs are now driving prices up here," says Silke Noll, nutrition expert at the Bavarian Consumer Center.

Similar to the supermarket and restaurants, the prices would be passed on to the customers.

The numbers speak for themselves: According to the market research institute GfK, private households had to pay 8.6 percent more in April than in the same month last year.

The increases in edible fats were particularly drastic with an increase of 27.3 percent and meat (11.8 percent), dairy products and eggs (9.4) and vegetables (9.3).

You notice that at the supermarket checkout, but also with snacks from the stand.

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The nutritionist recommends: “Even if to go is more practical: If you make your own sandwiches at home or prepare lunch and take it with you, you save money.

And on top of that, lives healthier because fresh products have fewer additives.”

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looked around the city center and noted the snack prices and spoke to sellers and customers.

Many sellers have recently set higher prices.

And most who haven't raised their prices yet are considering doing so in the foreseeable future.

Interesting: some chains vary in price for the same product depending on location.

At the main station, for example, it is often more expensive than at the Stachus.

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Munich: That's what customers say about the price shock for small dishes

I am already price conscious and look to see if something has become more expensive.

I paid 10.90 euros for my salad.

Luckily I get a meal allowance through work, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

Sometimes I take something to eat with me from home.

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Marianne Bilecen (58), owner of Ali's Kebaberia.

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I had to increase doner kebab from 5 to 6.50 euros.

But that's not my fault!

The price of meat has risen by 30 percent in the last three weeks alone.

And for ten liters of rapeseed oil I now had to pay 40 euros to the dealer – before the Ukraine war it cost 15 euros.

I'm not even fully passing on our increased expenses.

Unfortunately, the higher prices mean that there are about 30 percent fewer customers.

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Agocs Radovan (42), Operations Manager Sasou.

© Markus Goetzfried

I haven't increased the prices since the beginning of the year, but I'll probably do that at least for sushi during the summer holidays and, for example, sell the salmon sushi for 5.50 euros instead of 4.50 euros.

Meat, fish, vegetables - everything has become more expensive.

Added to this are the high energy prices, and now also the rising personnel costs due to the minimum wage.

I'll probably have to make other dishes more expensive in the fall.

The development is awesome

Luigi Farsch (39), owner of Sandwiches Luiginos.

© Markus Götfried

We will look at the development until October and then we may increase the prices.

There is still the consideration that fewer customers will come if we become more expensive.

6 or 7 euros for a sandwich is not that cheap anyway.

Nevertheless, the development is blatant: the price of butter alone has quadrupled in the last three or four weeks.

The same goes for the bread.

And every supplier suddenly adds a delivery fee...