
Restaurant Food Costs in 2026: What Changing Ingredient Prices Mean for Your Menu
U.S. wholesale food prices were 2.6% lower in September 2026 than a year earlier. Yet producer prices for prepared seafood rose 19.3% and fresh vegetables 17.8%, according to the National Restaurant Association’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. So are restaurant food costs falling in 2026? Slightly, on average. But ingredients are moving in […]















