Wednesday, January 14, 2009

How would you like to pay $50 for a pizza?

This is an ad we received in Reykjavík Saturday (We don´t have Pizza Hut in Selfoss). As you look at the prices they are first small, medium and large. Thus the large Super Supreme is 5.170 which is a little less than $50 at today´s exchange but that goes up and down everyday so we just figure take the last two digits off the price and that is the cost in dollars - quick and easy way to figure prices. Right now the prices in restaurants do not appear to have gone up because they have been so high for a very long time - two years ago that pizza was closer to $100, but I am not sure how long that will last as the prices in the stores are going up everyday. Icelander´s are complaining about the high cost of groceries now and we thought they were high when we got here. Thanks to the improving exchange rate locally produced items are going up very little compared to imported goods.

2 comments:

Nessa said...

YIKES!

Paige said...

Does that only rich people eat pizza or that Icelanders make a lot of money?