# Wages of $15/hr--Have any fast food chains raised their prices?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 6, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wages-of-15-hr-have-any-fast-food-chains-raised-their-prices/953902 "2021-11-06T19:02:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wages-of-15-hr-have-any-fast-food-chains-raised-their-prices/953902/9 "2021-11-07T16:31:34Z")

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This article shows a plot of fast-food food and labor prices:

> **[Wages and Prices Are Up, but It Isn’t a Spiral—Yet](https://www.wsj.com/articles/wages-and-prices-are-up-but-it-isnt-a-spiralyet-11635688981)**
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> A wage-price spiral has historically been a key ingredient in persistently high inflation. But economists aren’t predicting that yet.

But I can’t find where the price data are from. I asked for help in [GQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-us-fast-food-prices-time-series/953938).

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