Русская версияHigher energy costs and wholesale prices for the meat and other
ingredients are mostly to blame for the increase in prices
nationwide.
"We expect the 3 euro ($4.40) mark to be surpassed in the next
year," Tarkan Tasyumruk, a spokesman for the union of Turkish doner
producers in Europe, told the dpa news agency.
In other large German cities the grilled meat is already being sold
for 3.30 euros or even 3.50 euros.
But in the capital kebab prices
still hover at 2.50 euros at many stands, sometimes even less, and
only in isolated cases do they reach 3 euros.
The competition among as many as 1,600 doner retailers in Berlin is
bigger than in other German cities and that causes prices to rise,
Tasyumruk said. Demand for the popular Turkish fast-food has hardly
wavered in his opinion, "It is a stable market."
The market seems to have regained its stability after the dent
caused by the spoiled meat scandal one year ago, when a producer in
Itzenhoe sold around 100 tons of doner made from substandard meat
between December 2006 and September 2007.
Germany is Europe's biggest doner exporter and the annual turnover
of the sector, which has around 45,000 workers nationwide, is
estimated at 2.3 billion euros. But there are no statistics
available for the number of kebabs sold in Germany.
The Berlin doner producer Remzi Kaplan said in Germany around 700
tons of doner meat is produced daily. Kaplan said 2.50 euros is the
minimum cost at which a good quality doner kebab with salad and
sauce can be sold, with some profit left over.
(Deutsche Welle)
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