Rising costs blamed for need to 're-evaluate' long-running festival. yxe
“Taste of Saskatchewan is a festival that SaskTel Centre has loved producing; our staff loved working the event,” said SaskTel Centre executive director Scott Ford.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
He said the festival’s operations have been hit by the soaring inflation many households have seen in their own budgets. He noted costs for fuelling generators and refrigeration have only risen over the course of the festival’s 25 years. “I think the economics of just people running their own household, there’s different challenges than there was five years ago,” he added.
For restaurants, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on foot traffic and the subsequent inflation on food has made it difficult to estimate costs of putting together a menu for the festival, Ford said.
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