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If you're referring to restaurants, that is because the waitress makes around 4000 CHF per month; if you're referring to food in supermarket that is because the
by s3nnyy 10y ago
If you're referring to restaurants, that is because the waitress makes around 4000 CHF per month; if you're referring to food in supermarket that is because the clerk behind the counter gets 25 CHF / hour and not 7 EUR like in Germany.
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- illumen 10y agoSo higher cost of living results in higher prices. Strange that. /s
- rs999gti 10y agoHigher pay too.
- jessaustin 10y agoSo you're suggesting what, gardening? Gardening is great, but it's not responsive to, "the price of food in Switzerland was insane..."
- cheald 10y agoMy sister in Geneva sources a lot of her food out of a community garden.
- s3nnyy 10y agoIn Switzerland, imported and unprocessed food is surprisingly cheap. Veggies are maybe 20-30% more expensive than Germany. Processed food like frozen pizza is expensive as a substantial amount of (manual?), well-paid labour goes into convenience food.
- jessaustin 10y agoIn Switzerland, imported and unprocessed food is surprisingly cheap. Veggies are maybe 20-30% more expensive than Germany. I must be misunderstanding something, because these two sentences seem to contradict. In Germany itself, "unprocessed food" is more expensive than in most of the rest of the world.
- germanier 10y agoAccording to Eurostat food prices in Germany are at the EU-15 average and slightly above the EU-28 avarage with fruits and vegetables slightly below. Sure, in most of the rest of the world food is pcheaper but that compares to even lower income levels.
- ido 10y agoI don't know how much supermarket clerks earn, but German minimum wage is 8.5 eur/h.
- misja111 10y agoNot only that, but Switzerland puts import fees on quite a number of food items. For instance, Swiss meat farmers are heavily protected, and that shows when you check the prices for meat in the supermarket or in a restaurant. A steak can cost three times as much as over the border in Germany.
- herbst 10y agoI cant talk for anyone but this is something we highly value in this country. You pay more but you usually get always good quality. Its not a hit or miss like in the surrounding countries.