Cheese prices hike pizza costs

Filomena Riccioni puts the escalating prices of cheese in terms we can all understand.

“It’s going up faster than gasoline,” said Riccioni, one of the owners of Fernando’s Wedgewood Pizza in Austintown.

Both Wedgewood and Belleria Pizzeria raised prices at the start of the year because of the increase in the state’s minimum wage — but now they are considering upping prices again. Officials at both say they may not be able to absorb the rising price of cheese any longer.

“It’s embarrassing to do this to the public,” Riccioni said.

The price of mozerella cheese has increased from $1.70 a pound to $2.75 a pound in the past two months, she said.

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