"Worst thing I participated in as kitchen staff in a rather top-flight restaurant was on a slow summer Sunday afternoon. The boss sent us down to the walk-in meat coolers to spray paint the rusted walls. We were instructed to not remove the contents of the cooler first; rather, just shift the meat from one side of the cooler to the other - the coat of silver spray paint will come off during cooking." - u/Zealousideal_Lie_383.
When you're on that kind of a margin, if you're being handed increases by the food manufacturers of, you know, four or five, six, sometimes double-digit [percent] increases, you're passing that on to the consumer and there's just no way to get around that.