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Friday, May 1, 2026

Honky-Tonk Wage Hikes Keep the Pressure on Prices — and Powell - Bloomberg Law

In downtown Nashville, chef Matt Farley is serving up trouble for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Acme Feed and Seed, the restaurant and honky tonk he manages on the main live-music drag, has been jacking up prices for everything from fried chicken to a rack of ribs. There are two big reasons. Food supplies are way more expensive – pork costs two-and-a-half times what it used to, for example. More worrying for the Fed, so are workers.

Farley is having to pay $17 an hour, up from about $12 before the pandemic hit, to hire dishwashers in a ...

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