Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a news report about inflation and how ice cream trucks might be a thing of the past. But what catches their attention is how the reporter asks a drive-thru worker to essentially give a statement for the company about how their handling inflation.
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00:00ice cream trucks may soon be a thing of the past really with gas costing so much and ice cream
00:17costing so much a lot of them are giving it up let's listen to that the ice cream truck's jingle
00:24is a classic sound of summer in the usa but rampant inflation is melting away profits and threatening to drive this all american staple off the road it's just not worth it for me to have a truck out there all day long sitting there hoping and praying to make money that's basically what it is at this point andrew mishosha owner of andy's italian ice is in new york has put the break on his ice cream trucks because of rising costs diesel is seven dollars a gallon in some states the
00:54vanilla ice cream thirteen dollars a gallon even the cost of sprinkles has doubled to sixty dollars a box and then there's sugar we used to pay sixty dollars a bag for this this is now at sixty seven dollars a bag in los angeles all american softie owner mike masantri says he's also struggling to keep his fleet of five ice cream trucks running i was spending about thirty thousand dollars a year in gas and now i'm up to about sixty or seventy thousand
01:21even the north american ice cream association says the ice cream truck unfortunately is becoming a thing of the past it makes me angry but what can i do about it can i have a bacon egg and cheese on a roll sure inflation is also taking a big bite out of breakfast so here it is a staple of new york city breakfast the bacon egg and cheese on a roll look at that but here's the thing here at the roosevelt gourmet deli in manhattan this cost me five dollars
01:51a year ago a year ago a year ago a year ago was only four how about dunk inflation duncan lovers across the nation are complaining on social media about rising prices my duncan has increased prices twice in the past two weeks they are pricing me out posted one guy a medium iced coffee that cost 325 in 2020 is now 405 in some stores prices went up at all the dunkin doughnut stores
02:18all of the store
02:20all of the stores
02:20Old i think you're doing a piece of arguing the drive through worker
02:23all of the stores
02:23like they're not the official dunkin spokesperson
02:26hello how are you
02:27hi yes i'd like to talk to you about the prices
02:29sure whatever what do you like
02:31okay so have the prices gone up at all your stores across the country
02:35i sure i guess i mean uh
02:37can you confirm you've raised prices
02:39right across the country
02:41i cannot confirm because i am just a person
02:43Are you authorized to speak on behalf of the Dunkin' Donut chain?
02:47I am not.
02:47I am not.
02:47Sir, yes?
02:48Where did the donuts have been in here?
02:50You know where they are?
02:51What are you talking about?
02:52You know where they are?
02:53Son of a bitch, you know where they are.
02:56Hello?
02:56Hi, hi.
02:57Yeah, still waiting here.
02:59So a year ago, an iced coffee was $3.25.
03:02I see here it's $4.05.
03:04Can you confirm that price?
03:06$4.25.
03:06$4.25.
03:07$4.25, man, stupid man.
03:10$4.20, you say it's gone up to $4.25.
03:11Please pull ahead.
03:12Uh, no, I'm not.
03:13I'm just doing the interview.
03:14Please pull ahead.
03:15Yes, hi.
03:16I'm with Inside Edition, just doing an interview.
03:18Hello.
03:19Oh, something's wrong with the speakers.
03:20Oh, now you're lying.
03:22Please pull ahead.
03:24Please pull ahead.
03:25Come on.
03:26What?
03:26I'm trying to get rid of the president.
03:28Stop it now.
03:30Shut up.
03:31So you confirm prices have raised across the country.
03:33Yes.
03:34Confirmed.
03:35Confirmed.
03:35Confirmed right here.
03:36Confirmed.
03:37We got the breaking news.
03:38Fine.
03:38Confirmed.
03:40Good.
03:40He interviewed a drive-thru worker.
03:43A drive-thru worker about to confirm all of the prices.
03:45To speak on behalf of the whole chain.
03:48By the sounds of it, it's not who you wanted to be.
03:52All of the stores.
03:53I don't know.
03:55A medium iced coffee that cost $3.25 in 2020 is now $4.05 in some stores.
04:01Prices went up at all the Dunkin' Donuts stores.
04:05All of the stores.
04:06All of the stores.
04:08All of them.
04:11That's it.
04:12That's it.
04:14That was the official.
04:15That's it.
04:15That's it.
04:16Done.
04:16Confirmed.
04:17Got it.
04:18Right here.
04:18Exclusive.
04:19You