According to Oregon’s Restaurant and Lodging Association, the state’s wholesale food costs have gone up 18% each year since 2020.
AURORA, Ore. — Nestled behind gardens off Pacific Highway in Aurora sits an 1800s-style farmhouse-turned-restaurant. It’s 2 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon, the start of lunch service, and the busiest time of day for employees at Filbert’s Farmhouse Kitchen.
“This is certainly the most difficult part of my 30-year career, without a shadow of a doubt,” said general manager Aaron Wolfe.
The family-owned restaurant opened just one year before the pandemic hit.
“We were exceptionally successful in that first year, and then
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