Roladin, a popular Israeli bakery and café chain known for selling doughnuts, has announced that the price on doughnuts will rise for Chanukah, Ynet reports.
The chain reported that the price of a strawberry jelly filled doughnut will rise from a price of NIS 6 to 7, a price hike of 17%.
Four other kinds of doughnuts with fillings of salted bagel, vanilla raspberry, toffee caramel and chocolate with sprinkles – which used to cost NIS 10 on Chanukah 2021, will be sold at NIS 12, increasing their price by 20%.
Roladin is also increasing prices of its premium made doughnuts, including complex and expensive ingredients, from NIS 14 in 2021 to NIS 15-16, depending on the type of doughnut. This will mean an increase of 7% and 14% respectively.
A cookies-and-cream doughnut rose in price from NIS 14 to 15, and doughnuts with fillings of mascarpone and strawberry, and berries with pistachios will be sold for NIS 16, instead of their earlier price of NIS 14. The price for a pack of a dozen doughnuts has also increased from NIS 145 to 155, a hike of 7%.
Jelly filled doughnuts make up 25% of the chain’s total sales during Chanukah.
According to Roladin, price has increased due to the higher cost of ingredients.
{Matzav.com}
Hopefully the price hike will get people to stop shoving their faces with donuts.
The #1 mitzvas hayom of Chanukah has become donut eating
Do you really imagine that donut eating has become “#1 mitzvas hayom of Chanukah?” I don’t see it. Yes, there are a large number of adverts for donuts but that is because Orthodox Jewish bakeries recognize it as a way to earn some money. Kids seem to enjoy it. I’ve yet to witness someone in shul on Chanukah proclaim that he’ll forgo hallel on Chanukah because such time is better spent eating a donut instead. Maybe I’ve just been lucky.
Maybe you don’t realize that the reason the bakeries do this is because people line up for hours to get their donuts.
Amelia Bedilia, you are taking me too literally. Didn’t think I needed to clarify my point. Shloishim yoim koidem ha chag, the bakeries and oilam are selling and tumuling about donuts. The bakeries are selling them only because the oilam wants them
Have a donut. But remember, there was a time we just ate latkes.
Drip drip drip.
Latkes are potato-based. Potatoes orginate in South Ameica. As you know, potatoes did not become a staple food for Jewish population centers until the mid to late 18th century. If the minhag to eat oily food on Chanukah predated the mid 1700s, then its initial iteration must not have involved latkes. Perhaps it was something more akin to a donut than latke, like pancakes made of wheat or other flour as opposed to potatoes.
I think potatoes are in many places. Have you heard of Ireland?
Ganovim.
Latkes are potato-based. Potatoes orginate in South Ameica. As you know, potatoes did not become a staple food for Jewish population centers until the mid to late 18th century. If the minhag to eat oily food on Chanukah predated the mid 1700s, then its initial iteration must not have involved latkes. Perhaps it was something more akin to a donut than latke, like pancakes made of wheat or other flour as opposed to potatoes.
Money is destroying us. Making us crazy. One could say dough NUTS.