The Chopped Leaf aka Steal Your Money Food Place

Come on…we all know them. Those food places that steal your money. I’m sure almost every place in Canada steals your money when you buy food. I still can’t get over how the same products in one country are one fifth of the price of that same product in another country. When I refer to this, I am largely referring to produce. 

These places are nicely decorated, serve you your salad in an over the top bowl, play hard to listen to music, and are usually empty. Exactly like The Chopped Leaf. WAIT, I know why they’re empty, because they only need 3 customers to make a million dollars!!!

  
Now, people will say, “why do you eat there if you don’t like it or it’s overpriced?” It’s not that I don’t like it-I do. Plus, what’s my alternative? McDobald’s? This is why obesity is an epidemic. 
It just floors me how when I lived in Mexico I could buy just over a pint of raspberries for about $1.50 Canadian. Here, I can buy exactly a pint for about $6.00. I get it, we have to import them and blah blah blah but guess what? It’s all just PROFIT. 

My issue with profit in the food industry is, when is it too much or too far that it makes it difficult for individuals to maintain a healthy lifestyle? To me, there needs to be some type of regulation because the fresh foods industry has no code of ethics I guess. 
One of the shittiest parts is that the mark up on some of this stuff is 200,300,400%. Like, wouldn’t you be okay with 250 percent mark up instead of 300 percent, mister big business? 

I understand that prices are market influenced to an extent and subject to economic conditions as well BUT maybe if we could all afford fresh fruits and vegetables, we would be just that much healthier, and happier and in turn our economic conditions would be just that much better. 

PS-by the time all of the produce gets here from Mexico and the United States it’s probably lost a lot of nutritional value. Moral: go to Mexico eat, eat the INCREDIBLY fresh fruits, vegetables, and seafood, enjoy the beaches and be 10 times happier and healthier. I speak from experience when I say, it rules.