The Price of Dining Out Restaurants Find Ways to Cope with Rising Costs

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Say you're a restaurateur. You're looking over the bill for your ingredients, and you see the price of short ribs has doubled. What do you do?

When that happened to Mike Stoner, co-owner of North Star American Bistro in Brookfield and Shorewood, he knew what he couldn't do: "I can't increase my prices 100 percent," he said.

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The Price of Dining Out Restaurants Find Ways to Cope with Rising Costs

Just as consumers are getting hammered with higher prices, so are restaurateurs. They say most price increases have slowed since the rapid rise in spring but they remain volatile. Those short-rib prices have dropped somewhat but aren't at their original prices...

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