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3. The dollar sliceFew regional delicacies offer the utility of New York's $1 pizza slice. That, too, has fallen victim to inflation.
Many of New York's low-price pizzerias have ditched the $1 benchmark for higher prices amid pandemic-era inflation, The New York Post reported earlier in November. Rising costs for garlic, flour, and even the gas used to power pizza ovens have killed the dollar slice.
"I can list about 200 items that I'm buying for my store every week and every one of them went up 50% to 200%," Leonardo Giordano, president of Mona Lisa Pizzeria and Ristorante in New York, said in a November Facebook comment.
The damage isn't too bad for New Yorkers. Many restaurants only hiked their per-slice prices to $1.50, still undercutting most upmarket competitors. But with inflation still trending at historic highs, its unlikely anyone will be able to trade a $1 bill for a New York slice anytime soon.