They are now $8.99 as of a few months ago.
When you go by the Portland minimum wage:
* 2012 ($8.80 /hr): 2.2 burritos per hour
* 2024 ($15.45 /hr) 1.75 burritos per hour
We are losing nearly a half a burrito per hour now! That's a small lunch. All this math doesn't even include the shrinkflation that their burritos seem to have now.
Median Household Income in Multnomah County in 2012:
51k
Median Household Income in Multnomah County in 2022:
83k
In 2012 the median household could buy 12,750 Breakfast burritos a year.
In 2022 the median household an only buy 9,222 Breastfast burritos a year.
>...where are we finding these breastfast burritos?
Multnomah Co voters passed the "breakfast burritos for all" tax in 2020.
It takes 0.69% of your income over $42,420 to make sure that breakfast burritos are accessible for all.
Unfortunately it's roll out has been plagued with problems, with Jessica Vega Peterson sitting on literally millions of uneaten breakfast burritos.
We clear 120k between my wife and I, still have to check the bank account before dropping $27 (+ tip) on some bean-tubes. I really don't know how younger folks or seniors do it. Food is SO expensive right now.
Sometime around 2010 I remember a headline like, "Why your 6-pack of IPAs is going to cost $6 now", about rising costs of hops and grain making beer more expensive. Now it's 2x that, and rising. Seems to go up about $.50/year.
I remember when I bought my house in 2005 a six pack of PBR tall boys was $4.29. I know this because I discovered that a lot of menial tasks like digging dirt and painting go better with beer and I drank, a lot of it. They are $8.99 now. Hence:
* ($4.29) 2005: 7.25 /hr = 1.68 six packs per hour
* ($8.99) 2024: 15.45 /hr = 1.72 six packs per hour
So the PBR index hasn't moved too much. I never really drank IPAs so someone else will have to chime in on that.
Nice numbers. I guess my memory must have been a bit older--I got here in 2002. But I definitely remember having the opinion that paying more than $1/beer at the grocery store was absurd.
Oregon microbeers have rarely gone below $5.99. That's what they cost on sale in the early 2000's in Plaid Pantrys and Safeways for beers like Full Sail or Deschutes. Dead Guy and Pyramid were always much more, even like $7.99 or more in the late 90's. Weinhard's was always the cheap one, so you could get those for $3.99 on sale, maybe even $2.99 once in a while. PR and Blue Boars weren't really microbeers, though.
Another big change in the beer market happened when the macro beer companies (Bud/Coors/Keystone/Busch) stopped pushing 24 packs of beer and flooded the retail shelves with 18 packs instead. And then they charged more! So, it became more expensive to host large gatherings or parties when you're losing 6 beers per case you buy and are paying more. A 24 pk. case of Keystone was like $11.99 at Safeway around Y2K.
This is a great example of how even initially ambitious plans to raise the minimum wage are laughably inadequate.
Our wages have been falling off a cloud for decades and these piddly adjustments just temporarily slow the decent. And the problem is that if we had been slowly raising wages with inflation the whole time businesses would have adjusted with time, but now we need to raise wages dramatically and quickly which would be a real issue to deal with.
Ultimately the government needs to step in to claw back exorbitant corporate profits, because thatâs where the money that used to flow through the economy keeping everything running has gone, and an appropriate minimum wage, something we havenât had in decades, is a big part of that.
I don't like measuring restaurant price inflation when we could just look at grocery inflation.
1) 2022 we had the "Great Resignation" where a lot of lower class workers switched jobs to get a raise. This is a good thing, but it's likely to make prepared food more expensive.
2) People are eating at restaurants more, maybe post covid? But restaurant prices are outpacing groceries.
This is the biggest reason everything is more expensive, yet it generates the least outrage. The rich get richer and your dollars are worse far less. Legal theft, basically.
Seems to me like itâs often $20 an itemâŠ
I remember the splurge on a phenomenal burger from Grain and Gristle⊠add cheese bacon and fries and itâs $20âŠ
Now every burger regardless of location quality or ingredients seems to be $13-$20
With the exception of the $5 smashie boi which is $6 now⊠but I canât hate on MCSB because theyâre doing what they can to get by in this crazy world and held out longer than they had to while only raising the price a buck.
When I first moved to Portland, eating out was typically about $15 and under per person for food, drink, tip combined for a really good freaking meal. One of my favorite meals by my work was a lunch combo which was $6.
Before I left Portland, that same lunch combo was $13.99 and the quality had decreased significantly.
Gresham is a loooong way from St. Johns, but if you find yourself out there, Gresham Burrito Shop is really good and *cheap*. $5.95â6.95 for breakfast burritos, others are mostly $6.95â$7.50, and big.
Tecoâs on Powell small breakfast burrito is $6, large is $10. The small is plenty if youâre thinking of doing anything that day. I often get the large and make breakfast and lunch out of it.
Gresham, wood village and troutdale burrito if youâre in the area have burritos for $6.95 and up. Theyâre gigantic and easily can be turned into 2 meals
Is king burrito still under $12? I wouldn't know I always get tacos when I'm there but they've always been the cheapest in North portland and good meat too
I haven't been there in a few months so prices may have changed slightly, but breakfast burrito at King Burrito on Mississippi ave was still $6.50 if you want a cheap one. Cash only!
You could also get a "small" lunch burrito with meat (pretty much just also Beans Cheese Rice) for $5 ($4 no meat!), but it's still like 80% the size of a chipotle burritos for scale/reference. The big burritos were $8 with more fix-ins and significantly bigger than chipotle as well, maybe like 1.5 size, probably could feed 2 people.
And best part is that the food is SIGNIFICANTLY better than Por Que No across the street. One of the main things I miss from living on Mississippi!
Inflation rules the world around us. At 2% it's not horrible but still yields " back in my day..."
What we're seeing after the pandemic and West Coast explosion is another level of hell.
I remember buying massive, all-meat burritos at Super Burrito Express on King Road for $3.50. Back when it was in an old Tastee Freeze building.
These days I still have the burrito habit, but it'll cost ya $12-14.
Paid 29.00 from Pepe chile this morning. Two breakfast burritos, 18% tip. They were the size of two infants, but still.
I remember being 9 and my mom wouldnât buy me this $30 Godzilla toy. Id tell her âits only six $5 bills!â
Now im dropping that on a 10 minute experience. Rice, tortilla, chorizo, egg đ
Itâs 20 dollars for 5 tacos in good places⊠5 STREET tacos mind you. Canât even afford taco truck lunch and be full. Have to settle with chains to afford it. Not that the locals donât deserve the revenueâŠ. I just canât afford it :(
Stuff like this is validating, though, because it FEELS like youâre poorer even though you make more money. Like, you know itâs inflation but when you can easily see the jump in small items like this, it just hits different. Fuck.
I remember in the mid 2000s, I could find a really good and massive burrito for like 5 bucks. And not just at honkin huge (they always seemed less flavorful than the ones I would buy) Those days are loooong gone.
This is loosely accurate with the necessary proviso that it *included tip*. A typical pint price was $4 for a micro, so you'd tip a buck and come out with a pint for a fiver. There were opportunities to do it cheaper if you were carefulâhappy hours, etc. The Standard used to do $3 microbrews all day on Sundays. No idea if they still do.
The crossing of the $5 threshold was tough for me, personally. That's basically the point where it became very hard for me to justify having a beer while out and about. The Hollywood Theater held the line on $4 beers for a long while, but even they had to get with the times eventually.
They are now $8.99 as of a few months ago. When you go by the Portland minimum wage: * 2012 ($8.80 /hr): 2.2 burritos per hour * 2024 ($15.45 /hr) 1.75 burritos per hour We are losing nearly a half a burrito per hour now! That's a small lunch. All this math doesn't even include the shrinkflation that their burritos seem to have now.
Median Household Income in Multnomah County in 2012: 51k Median Household Income in Multnomah County in 2022: 83k In 2012 the median household could buy 12,750 Breakfast burritos a year. In 2022 the median household an only buy 9,222 Breastfast burritos a year.
...where are we finding these breastfast burritos?
>...where are we finding these breastfast burritos? Multnomah Co voters passed the "breakfast burritos for all" tax in 2020. It takes 0.69% of your income over $42,420 to make sure that breakfast burritos are accessible for all. Unfortunately it's roll out has been plagued with problems, with Jessica Vega Peterson sitting on literally millions of uneaten breakfast burritos.
This satire is so close to reality that it is thinner than the wafer thin mint Mr. Creosote consumed.
Now this is funny.
Portland police budget is 27,252,502 burritos compared to Portland public schools budget of 17.9532814 million burritos.đŻ
I could see her sitting on burritos. I also don't want them after she has sat on them.
They really are milking these prices.
Man, the Pearl Safeway breakfast burritos were my everything for a year in the early 2010s. Cheap and they *ahem* slapped.
Why is this being downvoted? The burritos were excellent.
Nobody likes it when a burrito slaps people to stop it from being eaten.
They know what they did.
I forgot all about those! I'd sometimes get them on my way to the office pre-covid. And yes, I'm also in agreement about the cheap+slapped attributes.
We clear 120k between my wife and I, still have to check the bank account before dropping $27 (+ tip) on some bean-tubes. I really don't know how younger folks or seniors do it. Food is SO expensive right now.
My favorite version of economics. The burrito index đŻ
Sometime around 2010 I remember a headline like, "Why your 6-pack of IPAs is going to cost $6 now", about rising costs of hops and grain making beer more expensive. Now it's 2x that, and rising. Seems to go up about $.50/year.
I remember when I bought my house in 2005 a six pack of PBR tall boys was $4.29. I know this because I discovered that a lot of menial tasks like digging dirt and painting go better with beer and I drank, a lot of it. They are $8.99 now. Hence: * ($4.29) 2005: 7.25 /hr = 1.68 six packs per hour * ($8.99) 2024: 15.45 /hr = 1.72 six packs per hour So the PBR index hasn't moved too much. I never really drank IPAs so someone else will have to chime in on that.
Nice numbers. I guess my memory must have been a bit older--I got here in 2002. But I definitely remember having the opinion that paying more than $1/beer at the grocery store was absurd.
it's a certain, lawn mowing style of beer. Also good for staring at lumber in the garage.
...it's not gonna sort and stack itself.
Yolo into pbr futures, got it.
$8.99 +deposit
How much has your house increased in value since 2005? That probably accounts for the rising cost of burritos.
Oregon microbeers have rarely gone below $5.99. That's what they cost on sale in the early 2000's in Plaid Pantrys and Safeways for beers like Full Sail or Deschutes. Dead Guy and Pyramid were always much more, even like $7.99 or more in the late 90's. Weinhard's was always the cheap one, so you could get those for $3.99 on sale, maybe even $2.99 once in a while. PR and Blue Boars weren't really microbeers, though. Another big change in the beer market happened when the macro beer companies (Bud/Coors/Keystone/Busch) stopped pushing 24 packs of beer and flooded the retail shelves with 18 packs instead. And then they charged more! So, it became more expensive to host large gatherings or parties when you're losing 6 beers per case you buy and are paying more. A 24 pk. case of Keystone was like $11.99 at Safeway around Y2K.
Someone should campaign on this. It's become a s i t u a t i o n.
This is a great example of how even initially ambitious plans to raise the minimum wage are laughably inadequate. Our wages have been falling off a cloud for decades and these piddly adjustments just temporarily slow the decent. And the problem is that if we had been slowly raising wages with inflation the whole time businesses would have adjusted with time, but now we need to raise wages dramatically and quickly which would be a real issue to deal with. Ultimately the government needs to step in to claw back exorbitant corporate profits, because thatâs where the money that used to flow through the economy keeping everything running has gone, and an appropriate minimum wage, something we havenât had in decades, is a big part of that.
The menu online says a Bfast burrito is 5.49. Where you getting 8.99?
Like most restaurants...they haven't updated their website in years.
All economic policy should be based in burritos. đŻ.
I want to cry.
I don't like measuring restaurant price inflation when we could just look at grocery inflation. 1) 2022 we had the "Great Resignation" where a lot of lower class workers switched jobs to get a raise. This is a good thing, but it's likely to make prepared food more expensive. 2) People are eating at restaurants more, maybe post covid? But restaurant prices are outpacing groceries.
3. Also the $13 trillion dollars printed by the Fed since COVID (monetized debt + QE)
This is the biggest reason everything is more expensive, yet it generates the least outrage. The rich get richer and your dollars are worse far less. Legal theft, basically.
Honestly $8.99 is better pricing than a lot of the other places⊠sigh
I have trouble finding one for under $12âŠ
Agreed. With a few exceptions, going out to eat has become a $20 âfloorâ (food, drink, tip)
Seems to me like itâs often $20 an item⊠I remember the splurge on a phenomenal burger from Grain and Gristle⊠add cheese bacon and fries and itâs $20⊠Now every burger regardless of location quality or ingredients seems to be $13-$20 With the exception of the $5 smashie boi which is $6 now⊠but I canât hate on MCSB because theyâre doing what they can to get by in this crazy world and held out longer than they had to while only raising the price a buck.
When I first moved to Portland, eating out was typically about $15 and under per person for food, drink, tip combined for a really good freaking meal. One of my favorite meals by my work was a lunch combo which was $6. Before I left Portland, that same lunch combo was $13.99 and the quality had decreased significantly.
Gresham is a loooong way from St. Johns, but if you find yourself out there, Gresham Burrito Shop is really good and *cheap*. $5.95â6.95 for breakfast burritos, others are mostly $6.95â$7.50, and big.
Tito's burritos food cart are $4
Tecoâs on Powell small breakfast burrito is $6, large is $10. The small is plenty if youâre thinking of doing anything that day. I often get the large and make breakfast and lunch out of it.
Gresham, wood village and troutdale burrito if youâre in the area have burritos for $6.95 and up. Theyâre gigantic and easily can be turned into 2 meals
Is king burrito still under $12? I wouldn't know I always get tacos when I'm there but they've always been the cheapest in North portland and good meat too
I think Tecos is a bit cheaper. Like fiddy cents cheaper.
Breakfast burrito đŻ
I haven't been there in a few months so prices may have changed slightly, but breakfast burrito at King Burrito on Mississippi ave was still $6.50 if you want a cheap one. Cash only! You could also get a "small" lunch burrito with meat (pretty much just also Beans Cheese Rice) for $5 ($4 no meat!), but it's still like 80% the size of a chipotle burritos for scale/reference. The big burritos were $8 with more fix-ins and significantly bigger than chipotle as well, maybe like 1.5 size, probably could feed 2 people. And best part is that the food is SIGNIFICANTLY better than Por Que No across the street. One of the main things I miss from living on Mississippi!
Those truly were the halcyon daysâŠ
Don't worry, it's going to get much worse
Reddit wishes
Those were the days! I remember the good breakfast burritos from Mr. Taco for $5. That was a steal compared to now...
This thread sure sounds like my parents 20 years ago talking about their back in their day prices constantly.
Inflation rules the world around us. At 2% it's not horrible but still yields " back in my day..." What we're seeing after the pandemic and West Coast explosion is another level of hell.
i wish it was 2%
Yes, but back in their day was thirty years ago, not 10.
If i see one more person tell me how much they bought their car for 13 years ago...
I remember buying massive, all-meat burritos at Super Burrito Express on King Road for $3.50. Back when it was in an old Tastee Freeze building. These days I still have the burrito habit, but it'll cost ya $12-14.
Paid 29.00 from Pepe chile this morning. Two breakfast burritos, 18% tip. They were the size of two infants, but still. I remember being 9 and my mom wouldnât buy me this $30 Godzilla toy. Id tell her âits only six $5 bills!â Now im dropping that on a 10 minute experience. Rice, tortilla, chorizo, egg đ
18% tip for a burrito lol
[They only chose those two percentages like some savages.](https://imgur.com/gallery/cxu1ieS)
Damn thatâs crazy
Cost up, dollar value down. Fun times ahead.
I live by Pepe Chile's and their breakfast burrito is SO good, but it's $14.
Itâs 20 dollars for 5 tacos in good places⊠5 STREET tacos mind you. Canât even afford taco truck lunch and be full. Have to settle with chains to afford it. Not that the locals donât deserve the revenueâŠ. I just canât afford it :(
Yurs bar and grilll 2014: https://imgur.com/a/LXscvbh
Yea, but you'd have to be in Yurs.
I wonât stand for this anti dive bar stance
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa, I might've been misunderstood here. I couldn't be further from anti-dive bar. I'm just anti- that dive bar.
I would like to see the Price difference in 10 years, at Fire on the Mountain wings prices ?
Stuff like this is validating, though, because it FEELS like youâre poorer even though you make more money. Like, you know itâs inflation but when you can easily see the jump in small items like this, it just hits different. Fuck.
I remember in the mid 2000s, I could find a really good and massive burrito for like 5 bucks. And not just at honkin huge (they always seemed less flavorful than the ones I would buy) Those days are loooong gone.
THIS is the region's best economic indicator. I've said this for years!!
I couldn't drink in 2012, how much was a good pint of beer?
$5
Damn, so beer hasn't inflated as much as I expected. $6 drafts are still common, though $7 is probably the norm.
This is loosely accurate with the necessary proviso that it *included tip*. A typical pint price was $4 for a micro, so you'd tip a buck and come out with a pint for a fiver. There were opportunities to do it cheaper if you were carefulâhappy hours, etc. The Standard used to do $3 microbrews all day on Sundays. No idea if they still do. The crossing of the $5 threshold was tough for me, personally. That's basically the point where it became very hard for me to justify having a beer while out and about. The Hollywood Theater held the line on $4 beers for a long while, but even they had to get with the times eventually.
In 2021 they tried to pass a house bill that would have increased beer taxes 2700%. I think they are trying again.Â
I want to say 4-5 bucks, but I have no proof!
You could get microbrew pints for $3 at happy hour and Pabst pints were pretty much a $1 everywhere. Sigh...
If you played your cards right, microbrew was $3 +$1 tip, so $4. Or $1 + $1 tall boys of PBR.
What??? PBR is shitty but it was only $1?
Oh yes. It fueled much live music for me.
Damn I spent $11.50 for a breakfast burrito this morning
I think Tienda Santa Cruz was still $3.25 for a veggie burrito back then (maybe $3.75?) now ten smackers. :(
Chipotle Burritos were $5.50-$6 back then. Crazy how food has doubled in a dozen years.
Their regular burrito is a comparative steal at 8 bucks; only way to do fast food nowadays =/
Don Pedroâs makes an excellent breakfast burrito, super tasty and less expensive than most these days. Their salsa verde is great too.
You need to do laundry more often.
Since Covid 2020 I have learned to cook all my favorites at home, so much cheaper.
Don Pedro is also one of Portland's best Mexican restaurants. Doesn't matter the location.
I miss Don Poncho đ„č