Restaurants adjust to food shortage

Local restaurants owners are looking for ways to navigate food shortages.

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With restaurants stocking up again for dine-in crowds, some food suppliers are seeing shortages of meat and other products.

Kezi 9 news reporter julian mininsohn spoke with some local restaraunts on whether they're having to limit menu options or even increase prices.

(gianni barofsky) "proteins are going up in price.

Availability is tough."

La perla pizzeria owner gianni barofsky says he's buying less product because of it.

He's hoping a limited seating dining room will help.

(gianni barofsky) "if we've got 40 percent less seats and our food cost goes up by 20 percent it's a diffcult left."

(julian) as we look at the menu from la perla pizzeria a pizza runs anywhere from 11.50 to about 17.50 as the most expensive.

Owner gianni barofsky says that's not going to change even under these circumstamces.

(gianni barofsky) "i may cut back the number of types of tap beer i have.

That's just because i don't want to buy eight kegs of beer and tap them and realize we may get shut down again and lose that product."

Mezza luna pizzeria is in the same boat.

Owner sandy little says he's seen a shortage in yeast -- an key ingredient in pizza making.

(sandy little) "eveyone is home working on their sourdough recipes.

So yest -- we're like three weeks out before we can get activated dry yeast."

Little says doesn't plan on limiting menu items as a result of food shortages.

He will contact other restaraunts to help out.

(sandy little) "sometimes we're just borrowing and trading with other businesses.

I don't think we've been hit as hard as they haveon the ast coast, certainly."

Little -- like many restaraunt owners -- hope it stays that way.

Reporting in eugene, julian mininsohn, kezi 9 news.

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