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Americans Still Seeing Food Inflation at Restaurants, USDA Says
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US inflation for food consumed at home has started to level off, but prices are still going up at American restaurants, according to US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
“What you will find is, if you go deeper into those numbers, the opportunities at grocery stores are improving significantly, but it is restaurants where we are still seeing a bit of high inflation,” Vilsack told Bloomberg TV in an interview Tuesday.