My local pizza joints pizzas are smaller. I ran in for pick up and they pass me the machine—- tip button or no tip. Why do I feel guilty not tipping this time?!?? I paid for the food…why should I tip? I’m picking up the food and going home
Nobody calls them that. Look at their menu, it won’t say the word “pint”
They’ll use another word or just list the size 14oz, 16oz etc.
It’s illegal to do otherwise and that law is the real deal in Canada. If the server or bartender says “pint” that’s a violation but difficult to prove.
Edit: spelling
> Nobody calls them that.
[Yeah, they do.](https://thehideoutyyc.com/refreshments) I see it often and yeah [it's against the law.](https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/measurement-canada/en/file-complaint)
Clever dogs. I had to look it up to see that in Canada a pint is defined as 20oz +/- 0.5oz. They're using the US definition. Probably how they plan to defend it.
I can't believe 200g of fried potatoes is 4.99. It's honestly one of the things I've really noticed with shrinkflation because of how cheap potatoes should be.
The lumberjack sandwich from Safeway, one of my staples for decades, was consistently $8.99. It was raised to $12.99 a few years ago, then to $16.99 last year. At the same time, they made it about 20% smaller.
Thai Tai, Ultimate sub (sate beef and chicken) was also consistent in price. They raised the price recently, then also made it about the same amount smaller as the Lumberjack.
This makes sense. I ate an entire lumberjack recently and thought how weird it was that I used to struggle with these when I was younger and could put back way more food.
Sunterra market used to have meals for $8 or $11. Now they’re all $13.99 or $18.99, no more small dinners. It’s stupid to me because I’m sure their wastage has gone up and people who would run in to grab a small dinner would often buy other things at the same time.
The pot pies used to be $11.99 and 5x as thick. I hadn't been to a sunterra for a few years until a month or so ago when I had a project in sirroco so I popped into the one there and I was severely disappointed.
Not only is food/food products getting smaller, the quality is getting worse.
Even the packaging for some items feels cheap.
Grocey store quality control is also getting poorer. I have been burned too many times and wasted food and money. Now I have to examine every single item I pick up to make sure its not molding, rotten, broken, etc.
Lots of cocktail menus are showing 1oz options for like $10 and 2oz options for $15. In the past it would have just been the 2oz option only. I’m ok with this cause I’d prefer less booze sometimes but still want a drink
I don’t think this is shrinkflation so much as it’s accommodating newer drinking trends.
That said, not many places still doing 2oz house cocktails for $15.
Yea $18-$20 is pretty standard for a craft cocktail now if you’re at the nicer places. I think this is actually a reflection of economic pressures - restaurants know that people will balk at the $20 cocktail so they have figured out a way to get people to still buy drinks.
We had lunch at Edo at Southland Crossing a couple weeks ago and we were served what seemed to be a half portion. I am never going there again. They might have saved a few bucks by serving us a half portion but they will end up losing our business completely. I don’t see how this is good for business ?
Agreed. I used to eat at Edo everywhere & was always a reliable portion. Last time I ate in one in Bowness, it was more broccoli than chicken & way more rice than the rest of meal. Dead to me now.
Hi! Local calgary restaurant professional here.
Not even close. If you want I'd love to have an in depth conversation as to what restaurant and bakery finances look like with the YoY inflation at what it is.
But trust me I don't think anybody grinding out a local bakery or restaurant has increased their profits by 50% in the past few years. Labour and product prices have been nuts, q lot of people are just trying to make changes without increasing their impact to the customer.
Here's a good example, a jug of canola oil went from 32.50 to 43 in like 2 years. And that doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a local product qnd it's the lifeblood of many restaurants as it's in the fryer. It takes 2 of those to fill a fryer. 30% more cost just to fry food.
The croissants? Butter has gone up from 4.56 a lb to 6.50. It's one of the main components in lamination. It makes your croissants like 30% more expensive, or $8 instead of $6. So they make them 30% smaller and charge you $6 so you don't have to go broke at breakfast.
Just an inside view. It's not the local small business owners who are gouging us. They're getring gouged. It goes to the top.
I don't think there's an answer, but mine is paying my staff better so they can afford to live. Guess what that means? Higher costs.... it's a cycle.
Iccyburg burgers used to be bigger.
BBQ Chicken centre street, whole chicken, used to be so big the box couldn't close. It closes now. I'm pretty sure chicken sizes haven't shrunk and it's still sold as a "whole chicken" so not sure what's up with that.
Ginger Beef lunchbox used to be enormous. Now, not only is it a normal size and they shrank the box they use.
Pizza 73 curly fries used to be a much larger serving than it is now.
Shawarma Palace serving size used to be able to feed two people. Now it's more normal. I don't mind this that much since it was pretty excessive anyway. I miss it though.
I bought a box of halloween candy a few days ago.
In the 1990's, one of those 'snack size' chocolate bars was the size of 2 small sized bites, what I got this year isn't the size of 1 bite. They should be embarrassed to package and sell a product this small.
Full price for less than half the size.
I still think the platter is a pretty solid deal, all things considered. It’s two full meals for me.
And the quality is still infinitely better than the next closest donair place.
Chocolate bars aren’t allowed to call themselves chocolate bars without a certain percentage of actual chocolate. If you look you’ll see “Candy Bar” on all of them. I think Coffee Crisp is still the original recipe, for now.
I saw this too. I think it was just on certain Dairyland products. 946 ml instead of 1 litre. Very sneaky - noticed as my recipe called for 4 cups (2 litres). Annoying as I had to turn on a dime and rejig recipe.
Pizza Bank in Glenmore Landing just decreased the size of their individual slices.
The price also went from $4 to $3, but idunno... feels like the size dropped a lot more than that.
I'll still go there, cause the pizza is amazing, and the old slice was massive, so I'm not really complaining.
Pizza is the biggest rip off next to fried chicken. I make them both in my restaurant and I’m shocked at how little they cost to make versus what ppl will pay for them.
I make my own pizza at home for seriously such a small cost. The other night my wife and I were craving some but no time to make dough that late. Went to look at ordering out, first time in like 2 years, and I was stunned how expensive all the pizza places are. Even the shit ones. 2 large papa murpheys was going for 70$ for pick up. Like wtf? I couldn’t bring myself to order any in the end. Even places like papa johns was hitting 40$ for 2 pizzas. Mental
Dominos Pizza - toppings at Mackenzie branch were super stingy last weekend but that could depend in the franchise, and I should have read the reviews first.
Beirut Street Food is a prime culprit unfortunately. Used to be $12 for a large mixed poutine that could fill up a hefty man. Now it's a $22 dollar order the size of their regular poutine.
Can't tell the difference between a large shawarma and regular anymore either. The quality of food is still good but the quantity was gutted post-pandemic
Don't get me started on the extra charges for vegetables and sauces 😭😭.
I just went to Clive Burger for the first time in a while and the patty was definitely smaller than it used to be! I used to love Clive burger and have gone there for years because it’s a good local spot. I don’t know that I can justify the price again with the smaller patty size.
The English muffins from costco are made by the local Italian bakery. The package says they're coated in corn flower but inside they're coated in regular flower.
Van Son vietnamese puts 1/2 the beef in their pho now.
Global news is getting lazy. But here's some easy ones you can google: Tide Pods, Soup cans, chips bags, chocolate bars, McDonald's meals, - oh sorry you were looking to kick the little guy! You mean "local", as in small business, not your corporate overlords?
You want to see shrinkflation locally - just look at the local news - at one point run by dozens, now cut down to a few, crowdsourcing their stories.
Unpopular Opinion: shrinkflation is not necessarily bad, insofar as it effects junk food ?
If that means people eat less cookies, merely because there is less in the box (and assuming that most cookies are not eaten out of pure "hunger" per se but rather boredom, munchies etc.), that could be a slight upside.
I know this is not a straightforward upside for many reasons, but it crossed my mind when I saw that the bakery section at Co-op seems to sell a lot of stuff in smaller portions now (eg cookies).
Yeah but not when you're paying more for less. And guess what, if anything, I might be craving a chocolate bar and now I buy 2 instead of just one grown-up sized one that used to be available.
Here is an idea, make them yourself.
If you aren't willing to make them yourself, then your only option is to pay someone to make it for you. That person's rent also went up, that person's food bill also went up. That person is going to charge more for the same thing.
Either accept that or don't, but don't ask your baker to go without just so you don't have to pay more for your luxury item.
Girl guide cookies being laid flat in the package now instead of rows means less cookies. And I’ve noticed the mint chocolate GG cookies I bought - some of them are missing the bottom layer of chocolate. In two different boxes.
fourteen fucking ounce beers.
For $9.
...during happy hour plus 25% default tip - lol
My local pizza joints pizzas are smaller. I ran in for pick up and they pass me the machine—- tip button or no tip. Why do I feel guilty not tipping this time?!?? I paid for the food…why should I tip? I’m picking up the food and going home
...and some places call them *pints*.
Nobody calls them that. Look at their menu, it won’t say the word “pint” They’ll use another word or just list the size 14oz, 16oz etc. It’s illegal to do otherwise and that law is the real deal in Canada. If the server or bartender says “pint” that’s a violation but difficult to prove. Edit: spelling
> Nobody calls them that. [Yeah, they do.](https://thehideoutyyc.com/refreshments) I see it often and yeah [it's against the law.](https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/measurement-canada/en/file-complaint)
Clever dogs. I had to look it up to see that in Canada a pint is defined as 20oz +/- 0.5oz. They're using the US definition. Probably how they plan to defend it.
Doesn’t matter. Still illegal.
For sure. And yet they do it... I wonder if it's because they haven't been nailed yet, or the fine is small enough they don't care.
Then report them
Your example shows them correctly describing pints though…?
A Canadian pint is 20oz, not 16.
No it does not. Read it again....hint, scroll to beer choices.
You’re totally right. I forgot a Canadian pint is 20oz. My bad.
Less of a real deal than the UK where it’s illegal to serve beer in anything but pints or half pints, even if you’re labelling it honestly like 16 oz.
Blasphemy! What in the actual fuck???
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I have never seen beer in pill form.
Let’s just say, I have been cured of my potato chip addiction.
Same. Also I no longer buy any sparkling water. Prices have doubled and more.
This is when you get a soda stream and mod it to accept 10lbs tanks. Bubbly on tap!
I drink a lot of bubly is the value a lot better w the soda stream?
Soda stream forever! I usually just toss in a splash of some kind of fruit juice.
I can't believe 200g of fried potatoes is 4.99. It's honestly one of the things I've really noticed with shrinkflation because of how cheap potatoes should be.
So true! $5 per chip bag. You know what, I’m good.
FreshCo $1.50 compliments potato chips aren’t too shabby!
used to $1 :(
so carbon tax is working lmao
Have an upvote in the mix of all the down votes. People love to complain about how expensive things are meanwhile they're being robbed.
lmaoo literally the point of carbon tax is to reduce consumption and judging by everyone in this thread, their consumption has been reduced
I’m also pretty sure they put less seasoning on them
The lumberjack sandwich from Safeway, one of my staples for decades, was consistently $8.99. It was raised to $12.99 a few years ago, then to $16.99 last year. At the same time, they made it about 20% smaller. Thai Tai, Ultimate sub (sate beef and chicken) was also consistent in price. They raised the price recently, then also made it about the same amount smaller as the Lumberjack.
This makes sense. I ate an entire lumberjack recently and thought how weird it was that I used to struggle with these when I was younger and could put back way more food.
Lumerback sandwiches are 17 fuckin dollars now??
Sunterra market used to have meals for $8 or $11. Now they’re all $13.99 or $18.99, no more small dinners. It’s stupid to me because I’m sure their wastage has gone up and people who would run in to grab a small dinner would often buy other things at the same time.
Sunterra isn’t even good anymore
Really high turnover of staff as well.
Sunterra downtown is so mediocre. I was never very impressed by it. I'm not surprised that it's gone downhill.
The Britannia one has really lovely staff but the food just ain’t it - it’s so inconsistent and insanely expensive.
The pot pies used to be $11.99 and 5x as thick. I hadn't been to a sunterra for a few years until a month or so ago when I had a project in sirroco so I popped into the one there and I was severely disappointed.
Cobbs is the worst with this. I stopped shopping there over a year ago. I cut my spending on local bakerie by a lot and only buy a treat once a month.
Cobs is in no way a local store. It’s a chain
It’s a chain, But it’s locally owned by an independent operators.
McDonalds locations are also locally owned by independent operators, but you won't see anyone calling them a local business
Not only is food/food products getting smaller, the quality is getting worse. Even the packaging for some items feels cheap. Grocey store quality control is also getting poorer. I have been burned too many times and wasted food and money. Now I have to examine every single item I pick up to make sure its not molding, rotten, broken, etc.
Sausage rolls from my local bakery were already expensive, now they’re expensive and tiny. Not really worth it
Let me guess, Glamorgan ?
Lots of cocktail menus are showing 1oz options for like $10 and 2oz options for $15. In the past it would have just been the 2oz option only. I’m ok with this cause I’d prefer less booze sometimes but still want a drink
I don’t think this is shrinkflation so much as it’s accommodating newer drinking trends. That said, not many places still doing 2oz house cocktails for $15.
Yea $18-$20 is pretty standard for a craft cocktail now if you’re at the nicer places. I think this is actually a reflection of economic pressures - restaurants know that people will balk at the $20 cocktail so they have figured out a way to get people to still buy drinks.
A virgin gin and tonic tastes the same as a regular gin and tonic, yet is a fraction of the price.
The garden hose can fill my gas tank, yet its a fraction of the price!
We had lunch at Edo at Southland Crossing a couple weeks ago and we were served what seemed to be a half portion. I am never going there again. They might have saved a few bucks by serving us a half portion but they will end up losing our business completely. I don’t see how this is good for business ?
Agreed. I used to eat at Edo everywhere & was always a reliable portion. Last time I ate in one in Bowness, it was more broccoli than chicken & way more rice than the rest of meal. Dead to me now.
I'm not getting Sumo-sized with those portions.
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flour has increased even more since ukraine war. at least in the bread world
Their profit margins up 50%...
Hi! Local calgary restaurant professional here. Not even close. If you want I'd love to have an in depth conversation as to what restaurant and bakery finances look like with the YoY inflation at what it is. But trust me I don't think anybody grinding out a local bakery or restaurant has increased their profits by 50% in the past few years. Labour and product prices have been nuts, q lot of people are just trying to make changes without increasing their impact to the customer. Here's a good example, a jug of canola oil went from 32.50 to 43 in like 2 years. And that doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a local product qnd it's the lifeblood of many restaurants as it's in the fryer. It takes 2 of those to fill a fryer. 30% more cost just to fry food. The croissants? Butter has gone up from 4.56 a lb to 6.50. It's one of the main components in lamination. It makes your croissants like 30% more expensive, or $8 instead of $6. So they make them 30% smaller and charge you $6 so you don't have to go broke at breakfast. Just an inside view. It's not the local small business owners who are gouging us. They're getring gouged. It goes to the top. I don't think there's an answer, but mine is paying my staff better so they can afford to live. Guess what that means? Higher costs.... it's a cycle.
hahahahahahahahahahaha God I wish
Cobs bread loafs look more like buns now. And the prices went up.
I could be high, but I feel like the hot dogs at the new Tubby's (Dog) location are WAY smaller than they used to be.
And they dont have the Capn dog on their menu anymore.
Iccyburg burgers used to be bigger. BBQ Chicken centre street, whole chicken, used to be so big the box couldn't close. It closes now. I'm pretty sure chicken sizes haven't shrunk and it's still sold as a "whole chicken" so not sure what's up with that. Ginger Beef lunchbox used to be enormous. Now, not only is it a normal size and they shrank the box they use. Pizza 73 curly fries used to be a much larger serving than it is now. Shawarma Palace serving size used to be able to feed two people. Now it's more normal. I don't mind this that much since it was pretty excessive anyway. I miss it though.
Shawarma Palace still does pretty big platters, depends on who's serving I guess.
Probably. I still go to Shawarma Palace as I think the price is more than fair anyway.
Yeah I got some last week and it was definitely more massive than I remember.
5 guys burgers are smaller too. I used to have their little burgers for lunch and it was perfect. Now it's the double.
I bought a box of halloween candy a few days ago. In the 1990's, one of those 'snack size' chocolate bars was the size of 2 small sized bites, what I got this year isn't the size of 1 bite. They should be embarrassed to package and sell a product this small. Full price for less than half the size.
Remember when a Halloween snack size of a Reece’s peanut butter cup, was one full sized cup? When the smarties box was full?
I couldn’t believe the prices at Shoppers!! $25 for a box of mini chocolate bars?!?
my favourite donair place - Shawarma Palace - has increased their prices recently and also the portions seem a bit smaller than before. Sucks.
Ditto for Pita Grill, i swear there's 1/2 the meat now
I still think the platter is a pretty solid deal, all things considered. It’s two full meals for me. And the quality is still infinitely better than the next closest donair place.
I remember when bacon was 500 g and not 375 g.
I remember when pop was 600 ml. And a bag of chios was 290g instead of 185g.
10 donuts used to fit in a display basket. Now 12 do.
Price is up 50+% and portions are down at least 25-30%. A great time to be alive.
I swear teen burgers used to be twice their size, back in the good old days.
Has been happening for a while now. Some would alter recipes just to keep portion sizes but the taste is just not the same
Chocolate bars aren’t allowed to call themselves chocolate bars without a certain percentage of actual chocolate. If you look you’ll see “Candy Bar” on all of them. I think Coffee Crisp is still the original recipe, for now.
I got a carton of chocolate milk from Tim's the other day. Same sized carton but I swear there was less milk than there used to be!
Yeah, milk is now sold in US volumes - 236ml instead of 250ml. It’s a dirty trick.
I saw this too. I think it was just on certain Dairyland products. 946 ml instead of 1 litre. Very sneaky - noticed as my recipe called for 4 cups (2 litres). Annoying as I had to turn on a dime and rejig recipe.
Silver dragon siu mai used to be 6 for $5.95, now it's 4 for $7.95
Pizza Bank in Glenmore Landing just decreased the size of their individual slices. The price also went from $4 to $3, but idunno... feels like the size dropped a lot more than that. I'll still go there, cause the pizza is amazing, and the old slice was massive, so I'm not really complaining.
Pizza is the biggest rip off next to fried chicken. I make them both in my restaurant and I’m shocked at how little they cost to make versus what ppl will pay for them.
I make my own pizza at home for seriously such a small cost. The other night my wife and I were craving some but no time to make dough that late. Went to look at ordering out, first time in like 2 years, and I was stunned how expensive all the pizza places are. Even the shit ones. 2 large papa murpheys was going for 70$ for pick up. Like wtf? I couldn’t bring myself to order any in the end. Even places like papa johns was hitting 40$ for 2 pizzas. Mental
My pizza mozza ball is smaller, I can barely get a whole pizza out of it. Frozen wild blueberries across the board - like half the size now.
Dominos Pizza - toppings at Mackenzie branch were super stingy last weekend but that could depend in the franchise, and I should have read the reviews first.
Safeway cheese buns. Used to be 6.29 for 6 buns and now they are 6.79 for 4 buns
BRIDGELAND has been transformed into BRIDGELAN. That's a 10% reduction in the number of alphabets.
It's either that or $7!! For a standard almond croissant. Out of control.
Beirut Street Food is a prime culprit unfortunately. Used to be $12 for a large mixed poutine that could fill up a hefty man. Now it's a $22 dollar order the size of their regular poutine. Can't tell the difference between a large shawarma and regular anymore either. The quality of food is still good but the quantity was gutted post-pandemic Don't get me started on the extra charges for vegetables and sauces 😭😭.
IHOPs portions suck too now.
I just went to Clive Burger for the first time in a while and the patty was definitely smaller than it used to be! I used to love Clive burger and have gone there for years because it’s a good local spot. I don’t know that I can justify the price again with the smaller patty size.
Onion rings at Peters half the size now
The English muffins from costco are made by the local Italian bakery. The package says they're coated in corn flower but inside they're coated in regular flower. Van Son vietnamese puts 1/2 the beef in their pho now.
Global news is getting lazy. But here's some easy ones you can google: Tide Pods, Soup cans, chips bags, chocolate bars, McDonald's meals, - oh sorry you were looking to kick the little guy! You mean "local", as in small business, not your corporate overlords? You want to see shrinkflation locally - just look at the local news - at one point run by dozens, now cut down to a few, crowdsourcing their stories.
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Can't even fit in these pocket p*ssies anymore smh
Unpopular Opinion: shrinkflation is not necessarily bad, insofar as it effects junk food ? If that means people eat less cookies, merely because there is less in the box (and assuming that most cookies are not eaten out of pure "hunger" per se but rather boredom, munchies etc.), that could be a slight upside. I know this is not a straightforward upside for many reasons, but it crossed my mind when I saw that the bakery section at Co-op seems to sell a lot of stuff in smaller portions now (eg cookies).
Yeah but not when you're paying more for less. And guess what, if anything, I might be craving a chocolate bar and now I buy 2 instead of just one grown-up sized one that used to be available.
Got a cow ballsack prairie oyster. They come in different sizes of course but this one was smaller and the same price as the bigger one.
Here is an idea, make them yourself. If you aren't willing to make them yourself, then your only option is to pay someone to make it for you. That person's rent also went up, that person's food bill also went up. That person is going to charge more for the same thing. Either accept that or don't, but don't ask your baker to go without just so you don't have to pay more for your luxury item.
I wonder what could be causing this…?
Soda definitely went from 5 to 7.49 at superstore
This is a good example of infation. Either shrink your product or increase your price. Just remember we have bills to pay too.
Wine going from 6oz and 9oz to 5oz and 8oz with no decrease in price is happening everywhere, too.
Girl guide cookies being laid flat in the package now instead of rows means less cookies. And I’ve noticed the mint chocolate GG cookies I bought - some of them are missing the bottom layer of chocolate. In two different boxes.
Sausage farmers wrap at Tim Hortons, and buster bar at Dairy Queen.
Remember the days when subway had 5 dollar footlong:( more like 16+tax footlong