Street food vendors absorb oil price increases
A customer places an order at Singh s Doubles in Debe. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton
Although the price of soy-based cooking oil has increased, roadside food vendors said they have no intention of raising prices on their food items at this time.
Street food vendors of doubles, aloo pies, saheenas, baiganees, kutchories, fries and similar items said they have incurred heavy increases on a five-gallon keg of cooking oil which moved from $160 in some instances to $240 over the last month.
Sunday Newsday visited street food vendors in Chaguanas and Debe on Friday to get an insight into the situation and learnt that while many of the vendors were contemplating increasing their prices, holding off on such a move was necessary until the latest covid19 restrictions are lifted.