at least the worth of worst of the hikes could be tipping now, do you see that? do you think things potentially have stable the eyesed? you know, neil, my daughter s getting her mba at nyu, and an economics professor said how long will this inflation go, and they said, look, just us at our family business, we had to raise our starting rates $2-3 an hour. that s not going away. i can t go back to my team members and say i m reducing your pay now. that s baked in, it s not going away. i saw amazon or something this morning s not amazon, apple s offering $22 an hour right now. you know, we re, like, $16, 17 at stew s. the second thing, fuel prices. i don t know what s going to happen with them right now, but i m talking to our fishermen, our farmers, our ranchers, it costs them double to fill their tractors and the fishing boats up with fuel right now. some of our fishermen are just
second piece of pumpkin pie at thanksgiving. [laughter] oh just watch, just watch. stew, great seeing you and good health to you, stew leonard. and half full glass, you know realize we ll get through this, we ve gotten through worse. we have a lot more coming up, including the push for vaccine boosters right now and the f.d.a. and c.d.c. recommending for all. and businesses saying you know what, if you want to cruise with us next year make sure that you re vaccinated and that your kid is, too. after this. and twice as merry. buy online and pick up in store today. up to one million dollars. that s how much university of phoenix is committing to create 400 scholarships this month alone. because we believe everybody deserves a chance. see what scholarships you may qualify for
should panic, but prices have jumped up a little bit. now what do you recommend, stew, when that happens and the turkey has to be the centerpiece still and how do you guide them and how do your customers find a way around them? you know, neil, first thing i d say, make it yourself. okay? i m showing you a dinner that we have at stew s that was $175 for eight people right here, and we ve seen this, like 300 plus percent jump, over triple because people are going to larger gatherings. our dinners for four are down 50% so you re seeing larger gatherings, but you can get something like this $22, less than that per head and it s like thanksgiving in a box and the same price this year, $175. the cost has gone up, but i think what i ve done with our suppliers, i ve talked to our
had an of is definitely inflation, we ve had to raise our labor rates at stew leonard. we re at $16 an hour now. i can t absorb that forever, but i think the other half of the cost increase you re seeing is disruptions in the supply chain. you know, it s really hard to get product right now. and i think one thing people should look for, if you have 20 items for thanksgiving that you re planning on getting, you may not find a couple of them on the shelf. here at stew leonard i ll make sure you have 20, we ll find something else, like paper, bounty towels, something, i know that costco is limiting them at the store. we re not limiting them. we ll probably run out, but we ll have scott s paper towel there for you instead. neil: sounds good. have a happy thanksgiving, my friend, be well. hey, neil, you know the only thing i know you ve lost a lot of weight and i m trying to lose weight, too. the thing, we can t eat is