A needed adjustment
Due to the continued constrains and disruptions on supply chains as a result of COVID-19 and the rise in inflation, the cost of ingredients to make and serve our food to you continues to rise.
These cost increases, sometimes up to 230% more than a year ago, are creating financial challenges to small businesses like ours. For several months we were hopeful that we could just absorb the price increases without needing to adjust pricing on our food thinking this would be over soon but the unpredictable pricing on basic ingredients and compostables has not stopped.
As a result of these current turbulent supply chain issues, you will see slight price changes on our menu from time to time to reflect the spike on cost of ingredients. To be fair to customers, we will only change pricing on items that are truly being affected and not simply apply across the board pricing adjustments. For example, the price of our premium meats have increased way more than cheese and beans, so meat tamales will see a higher price change than our bean and cheese tamales.
Our price changes will only be in the range of .25 cents to .50 cents. There is a lot of labor and ingredients that goes into our food and while we could cut corners in how we treat our staff and the ingredients we used, we are committed to our values of high quality and good employment practices (our current minimum hourly rate during pandemic is $18.50).
We hope you understand the need to make these changes so that we can continue to provide the same quality of pay and benefits to our staff and the same high quality food to you. We know we are not the only small business needing to do this here in Seattle and we hope you’ll continue to support your local independent small businesses.
We appreciate your patronage and we are grateful for choosing us as your tamale shop.
These cost increases, sometimes up to 230% more than a year ago, are creating financial challenges to small businesses like ours. For several months we were hopeful that we could just absorb the price increases without needing to adjust pricing on our food thinking this would be over soon but the unpredictable pricing on basic ingredients and compostables has not stopped.
As a result of these current turbulent supply chain issues, you will see slight price changes on our menu from time to time to reflect the spike on cost of ingredients. To be fair to customers, we will only change pricing on items that are truly being affected and not simply apply across the board pricing adjustments. For example, the price of our premium meats have increased way more than cheese and beans, so meat tamales will see a higher price change than our bean and cheese tamales.
Our price changes will only be in the range of .25 cents to .50 cents. There is a lot of labor and ingredients that goes into our food and while we could cut corners in how we treat our staff and the ingredients we used, we are committed to our values of high quality and good employment practices (our current minimum hourly rate during pandemic is $18.50).
We hope you understand the need to make these changes so that we can continue to provide the same quality of pay and benefits to our staff and the same high quality food to you. We know we are not the only small business needing to do this here in Seattle and we hope you’ll continue to support your local independent small businesses.
We appreciate your patronage and we are grateful for choosing us as your tamale shop.
Steamed: If you order tamales labeled as steamed, this means that they have already been cooked for you. Reheating is your best option for leftover cooked tamales. They can still be put in the fridge or freezer depending how long you want them to last.
Frozen: If you order tamales labeled as frozen, it means the masa (corn dough) is uncooked, this means that the tamal has not been steamed in which the masa is still raw. Everything inside the tamal is cooked, however, so if you order uncooked, you need to steam them to cook the masa. Often times, the uncooked tamales will be cold/frozen but if they are not, it means the tamales were made a couple hours before you got them.
