Inflation-walloped restaurant owner: 'I don’t want to be the guy serving $43 steaks.'

A Longboat Key eatery tweaks menu to meet current times, and demand.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 7:30 a.m. June 7, 2022
The new Kacey's Seafood on Lockwood Ridge Road. (Photo by Nat Kaemmerer)
The new Kacey's Seafood on Lockwood Ridge Road. (Photo by Nat Kaemmerer)
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Local restaurant owners Michael Garey and Bob Fracalossy have latched onto a novel way to handle the double whammy of inflation and high food costs: The duo let go of lobster at one of their locations. 

 

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