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I own a chicken restaurant and the price is through the roof right now. last year at this time I was paying .90 per lb for bone in whole chicken. Today I paid $1.36 per lb. Whole wings to make buffalo wings are $3.20 per lb. and when you can actually get them you better stock up. Tenders normally run around $1.50 per lb. and are $2.79 now. Every week I say to myself it has to level off but it just keeps going up.
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Originally posted by RaginCagin View PostI own a chicken restaurant and the price is through the roof right now. last year at this time I was paying .90 per lb for bone in whole chicken. Today I paid $1.36 per lb. Whole wings to make buffalo wings are $3.20 per lb. and when you can actually get them you better stock up. Tenders normally run around $1.50 per lb. and are $2.79 now. Every week I say to myself it has to level off but it just keeps going up.
Hardest part will be shaping that cat and dog to look like tenders, or wings.
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Not part of the chicken shortage thread, but I agree with Throwin Darts. No one wants to work. My dads wife owns a motel in the hill country. They cant get people work, cleaning rooms, or doing maintenance, or anything. 15-17.00 an hour. Some of them they even furnish a place to live. People still wont work.
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Originally posted by AgHntr10 View PostI worked in a poultry processing plant and the turnover was horrendous under normal circumstances. With the amount of stimulus money and unemployment payments being handed out I have no doubt they are having a hard time keeping employees and causing a constraint on supply.
With immigration policy
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When a person can get $500 a week for unemployment and $300 on top of that for Covid-19 for every week, they bring home more money than they can when working. Then, when it runs out, they are allowed to file for another 6 months.
Then, when you couple that with the increasing grain prices, just getting the chickens grown to production size, the cost has doubled. This was on my local news just a couple days ago.
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Originally posted by spotsanddots View PostNot part of the chicken shortage thread, but I agree with Throwin Darts. No one wants to work. My dads wife owns a motel in the hill country. They cant get people work, cleaning rooms, or doing maintenance, or anything. 15-17.00 an hour. Some of them they even furnish a place to live. People still wont work.
Just two days ago I overheard a conversation involving a AAA baseball operations person who said flat out, they can't find people to hire and are running very short staffed. The labor shortage is real in certain industries for sure. I also just read an article the other day that said an economic analysis showed that the break even point is $32k/yr in annual income where it becomes more advantageous to be on unemployment/covid payments than work. With the extra money being given to the dead beats and having it extended several times by our wonderful govt, lower wage earners have been incentivized to stay home and collect welfare.
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Originally posted by rockyraider View PostJust two days ago I overheard a conversation involving a AAA baseball operations person who said flat out, they can't find people to hire and are running very short staffed. The labor shortage is real in certain industries for sure. I also just read an article the other day that said an economic analysis showed that the break even point is $32k/yr in annual income where it becomes more advantageous to be on unemployment/covid payments than work. With the extra money being given to the dead beats and having it extended several times by our wonderful govt, lower wage earners have been incentivized to stay home and collect welfare.
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