The ice cream truck jingle is a classic sound of summer, but rampant inflation is melting away profits and threatening to drive this all-American staple off the road.
Andrew Miscioscia, the owner of Andy’s Italian Ices New York, has taken a halt to his ice cream trucks due to rising costs.
“It’s just not worth it for me to have a truck out there all day long sitting there hoping and praying to make money. that’s basically what it is at this point,”He spoke to Inside Edition.
Diesel costs $7 per gallon in certain states. Vanilla ice-cream has risen to $13 per gallon. Sprinkles have risen to $60 per box, even though the price has doubled. And then there’s’ sugar cost, which Miscioscia said was $60 a bag, but is now $67 a bag.
In Los Angeles All American Softy owner Mike Musantry says he’s also struggling to keep his fleet of five ice cream trucks running.
“I was spending about $30,000 a year in gas and now I’m spending 60-70,000,”He spoke to Inside Edition. “It makes me angry but what can I do about it? What do you do? Fold? I’m not going to fold!”
“The ice cream truck, unfortunately is becoming a thing of the past,” The North American Ice Cream Association says, according to The New York Times.
Inflation is also taking a huge bite out of breakfast.
New York City’s breakfast staple is the classic Bacon Egg and Cheese on a Roll. At the Roosevelt Deli in Manhattan it cost Inside Edition’s Steven Fabian $5, when just a year ago it was $4.
“Bacon is certainly up about 10 per cent in the last year. Eggs are up over 30 per cent in the past year. They go into all kinds of classic dishes,”Fabian was informed by a manager of the deli.
Dunkinflation, anyone? All across the country, Dunkin fans are complaining on social networks about rising prices.
In some shops, a medium iced coffee which cost $3.25 in 2020 now costs $4.05
Dunkin spoke to Inside Edition “prices went up in all of the stores.”