“At a Certain Point, It Just Becomes Too Expensive”: While Everyone Is Raising Prices, This Chip Shop From Beveren Is Deliberately Doing the Opposite.

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“A family easily spends 40 euros here.” While prices in the hospitality industry have only risen in recent years, chip shop ’t Patatje on Soldatendreef in Beveren, East Flanders, is choosing the opposite. Owners Robby Aps and Renata Van de Perre are lowering the price of all packets of fries, hot dishes, and drinks by one euro. Not because it has become cheaper, but because the owners notice that more and more families are dropping out. “We have…