{"id":1036572,"date":"2026-09-18T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036572"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:10:33","slug":"restaurants-cafes-rule-out-menu-price-hikes-in-festive-quarter-despite-upi-mdr-levy-and-rising-food-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/restaurants-cafes-rule-out-menu-price-hikes-in-festive-quarter-despite-upi-mdr-levy-and-rising-food-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants, cafes rule out menu price hikes in festive quarter despite UPI MDR levy and rising food inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars are unlikely to raise menu prices further in the October-December quarter, the busiest season for the hospitality industry, after the Centre said UPI-driven transactions above \u20b92,000 would attract a 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) levy from next month. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are supply chain challenges, but consumption has never been so high, and people are going out so much,&#8221; said Burma Burma co-founder Chirag Chhajer. &#8220;These are exciting times, and we are foreseeing the best ever October-December quarter in terms of revenues for the chain and we won&#8217;t be hiking our prices due to the MDR levy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars are unlikely to raise menu prices further in the October-December quarter, the busiest season for the hospitality industry, after the Centre said UPI-driven transactions above \u20b92,000 would attract a 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) levy from next month. &#8220;There are supply chain challenges, but consumption has never been so high, and people are going out so much,&#8221; said Burma Burma co-founder Chirag Chhajer. &#8220;These are exciting times, and we are foreseeing the best ever October-December quarter in terms of revenues for the chain and we won&#8217;t be hiking our prices due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036593,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036572\/revisions\/1036593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}