Inflation settles on winter food pricing

Food pricing has seen a settling of inflation, with the year-on-year measure at the lowest point for the month of October since 2016, the latest edition of the Foodservice Price Index from CGA and Prestige Purchasing has shown. October usually sees a jump in inflation from the onset of winter pricing a switch to imported fruit and vegetables and increased demand on the run up to Christmas, but the index has revealed inflation of less that 1% in seven of the ten categories.