“We try to be conscious about it, but also on the other hand, we have to make sure that we survive and make a little bit of money, you know?” Julio Gonzalez, the owner of Jammas Jax, told News4JAX.
John LaForge, an executive with Wells Fargo, told News4JAX small businesses are feeling the pinch – and prices will continue to rise as we move into the summertime.
“Well, oil is that one commodity that’s attached to everything. It is the input costs that will drive every cost up for a food truck, there’s nothing you can do about it, whether it’s your gasoline, whether it’s the tire on the actual truck itself, the food has to get to them somehow, that uses oil that uses gasoline,” LaForge said. “There’s really no way around it at this point. We’re not producing enough globally. We’re not producing enough locally here in the US in terms of gasoline and oil.
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