- July 9, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
COLUMBIA – Since the beginning of summer, restaurants and other venues have re-opened their doors to their customers. When the national shutdown began, many of these businesses had to pivot in order to stay afloat.
Businesses, like restaurants, are having a more difficult time trying to open or stay open due to problems caused by the pandemic. Some of these problems include product and worker shortages.
Ozark Mountain Biscuit Co., which started out as a food truck, opened a new restaurant location in Columbia just Thursday morning. The owner, Bryan Meness, said he has noticed prices surges on many of the products he needs for the business.
“Fryer oil or soybean oil is at an all time high right now,” Maness said. “Also, some items like eggs and beef is way up right now. We’ve seen an increase [in price] in our milk and buttermilk we used to make biscuits.”
Maness said fryer oil is at 100% increase in price and gloves that…
