Government Sends 'Price Increase Restraint' Message to Food Service Businesses This Time

The government will hold a meeting with consumer and dining organizations on the afternoon of the 26th to request their participation in stabilizing prices.

On this day, Han Hoon, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, will host a price stabilization meeting with the heads of seven consumer and dining organizations at the aT Center located in Yangjae-dong, Seoul.

At this meeting, Vice Minister Han plans to share the recent price situation and request the dining industry’s comprehensive cost reduction efforts and active price monitoring cooperation from consumer groups to maintain the downward trend in dining prices and promptly establish price stability.

He will also reiterate that cooperation from all sectors of society is urgently needed to quickly establish price stability, and will state that the government is making every effort to prepare effective measures such as stabilizing ingredient prices and improving foreign labor employment regulations, while gathering various opinions from the field.

That morning, Vice Minister Han visited the headquarters of Pizza Alvolo, which implemented price reductions despite difficulties caused by rising raw material costs, to encourage the staff. At this event, Vice Minister Han checked the status of price reduction efforts through cost savings such as logistics fees at Pizza Alvolo, expressed gratitude for their cooperation in price stabilization, and conveyed the government’s strong message on price stabilization.

Han Hoon, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. (File photo)

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