{"id":148084,"date":"2025-02-18T17:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148084"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:12:50","slug":"canteen-hotel-food-prices-to-increase-from-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/18\/canteen-hotel-food-prices-to-increase-from-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Canteen, hotel food prices to increase from tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"glightbox h6 inner_other\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/CHATURANGA-PRADEEP-SAMARAWICKRAMA\/88\">\u00a0CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Feb 18 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The All Island Canteen and Restaurant Owners&#8217; Association (AICROA) has decided to increase the prices of all canteen and hotel food items from midnight today.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Association Chairman Harshana Rukshan said that the price of a cup of plain tea will increase by Rs. 5, a cup of milk tea by Rs. 10, a plate of fried rice and kottu by Rs. 30, and the prices of short eats by Rs. 10.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the media, he said that no concessions were provided for canteen and restaurant owners in the recent budget.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canteen, hotel food prices to increase from tonight\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egCtJltu67Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Even though the price of a packet of salt has increased to Rs. 200, the price of an egg has risen again to Rs. 35, a kilogram of chicken costs more than Rs. 1,000 and the price of coconuts has reached a maximum of Rs. 220, we did not request the President to reduce the prices of any of these items.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, no support has been provided for the protection of canteens and restaurants in the country,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA\u00a0\u00a0 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 18 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The All Island Canteen and Restaurant Owners&#8217; Association (AICROA) has decided to increase the prices of all canteen and hotel food items from midnight today.&nbsp;&nbsp; Association Chairman Harshana Rukshan said that the price of a cup of plain tea will increase by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}