Anna Zoltai, the president of the National Association of Public Catering and Catering Managers (Közszöv), emphasized in August that, in the current situation, catering establishments are struggling to survive.

According to the association, this is why the establishments increased the price of school and kindergarten canteens by an average of 30% from September.

Public catering has been underfunded for a long time, and this year the unprecedented rise in energy and fuel prices, the increase in the price of food and raw materials, and the increase in wages made it inevitable to change the reimbursement fees, the association claimed.