Restaurant and café prices up 51 percent since 2019

Prices in pubs, cafés and other hospitality businesses have risen by 51 percent since 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. Last year, prices in the hospitality sector increased by four percent, while nominal revenues grew by just over two percent, the Czech News Agency reported.

The data comes from an analysis by Dotykačka, a company that supplies cash register systems.

Restaurant owners have justified price increases by citing higher costs for ingredients, energy, rent and wages, as well as some taxes, including the value-added tax on beer, which was raised two years ago.