You might have noticed it, or maybe you didn't: In-N-Out quietly raised its prices by 10 cents on April 1st. It's one of those incrementally minute things that you don't realize has happened until eventually, ten years later, you think to yourself, “Wow, a burger here used to be less than two dollars!”
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With the change, their cheeseburgers have finally crossed the $2 line, which in my opinion, is still cheap.
Curious, I asked my cashier and he said that the price increase was made as a response to rising produce costs.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.