Of the four restaurants Rick McQuaide owns across several counties in Western Pennsylvania, one is barely making a profit, two are losing money and the fourth has been "Temporarily" closed for far longer than he ever anticipated.
McQuaide - whose family has also been in the trucking and logistics industry for 70 years - said what frustrates him is the reaction coming from the White House and much of the national media on the severity of the problem.
"They are wildly out of touch with the struggles of the average American and small businessperson," McQuaide adds.
McQuaide's restaurants in Johnstown, Murrysville and Ligonier are famous for their crab cakes, but he had to stop selling them because they became so cost-prohibitive to his customers.
"A case of premium jumbo lump crab normally cost us $100 a case; over the past few months that cost has spiked to $600 for that same case."
"We've had to change menu items to lower-cost things or things that we can get readily available," McQuaide said.
He says the cost of inflation "Is not just killing our industry, it is hurting families as well." McQuaide thinks it would help if Biden and other politicians got out of Washington and saw what's happening to small-town Main Street.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Inflation Is Eating Away at the Heart of America's Small Businesses
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