My favourite Thai restaurant

It's an unfortunate thing, this inflation business. I know that this is how the world works, however, as I said before, what worries me is that the inflation rate is not the same as the rate that companies give their employees as a raise...

My favourite Thai restaurant in St. Henri, Mak Mak, changed its menu recently. When I went today, the menu was different. The prices had gone up...

Now, I know that this is part of every business and inflation and the like... However, I think the increases were a bit steep:

The Large Tom Yom Soup is not so bad... It used to be $8.50. It is now $8.78. The percentage increase there is: 3.29%. That's not so bad... However, the thing is now if you want to change the meat (or add a meat) of shrimp, pork or tofu, it's an extra $0.75. With this change, it's now $9.53. The percentage increase is now: 12.12%...

And it doesn't stop there... Take the staple Pad thai, for example. It used to be $8.50, meat included... Now, it's $8.00 for the pad thai, but now it only includes, the noodles, egg, bean sprouts... Nothing else... You have to add your choice of protein to it... So, for example, if you wanted a chicken pad thai: It would be $8.00 for the pad thai and then $1.38 for the chicken. So... The new total is $9.38. This is an increase of 10.35%... If you wanted shrimp, pork or beef, you have to add $1.88... That would mean that your new total is $9.88. So... This would be a percentage increase of 16.23%.

These are humongous price increases... When he told me that he would be increasing the prices a little bit, I was not expecting this margin of increase...