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Restaurants say they have no other option but to increase the price of a meal out. The cost rose 5.3 percent in the year to April.  It's alongside fruit and vegetables rising almost 10 percent – and meat, poultry and fish going up more than 8 percent.  Auckland restaurateur Chand Sahrawat told Heather du Plessis Allan they have to pass on some of the wage inflation in the supply chain – and price increases – they face. “Our wage costs used to be 30% pre-pandemic, it is now 35%, on a good week, to 46% some weeks.” LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.