No onion dosas in Bengaluru hotels as onion price touches Rs 120/kg

Onion prices have left consumers pinching their pockets. While consumers bore the brunt, retailers rejoiced  

Bengaluru: The skyrocketing price of onions has taken a toll on the onion-rich food items in and around Bengaluru.

Presently, onions are being sold between Rs 80 and Rs 120 per kg depending on the quality.

Shopkeepers are apprehensive the prices may shoot up further while many families have avoided the use of onion in their meals.

Some hoteliers have stopped supplying Irulli Dosa (onion dosa) as the prices have gone up, while others have reduced the quantity of the vegetable in other food items, president of All Karnataka Pradesh Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association, Chandrashekar Hebbar told PTI.

He, however, was optimistic that the shortage of onions in the market is for a short-term and said the situation would be better after a month or so.

Another hotelier Vasudev Adiga said his hotel chain per se has not reduced the quantity of onion and has decided to bear the extra burden caused by soaring prices.

However, his hotel chain has decided to introduce some innovative items, which require less onions.

“We will introduce new items using less costly items, which require less onions,” Adiga said.

In a lighter vein, Adiga said innovators usually take advantage of a situation like this and come up with alternative solutions. That's the way innovation happens, Adiga explained.

He too said the current phase of onion shortage is of a short duration, as the government has decided to import the vegetable.

People too have reduced buying onions as the prices have skyrocketed. Apparently the onion prices will shoot up further in the coming days and may take a while for the market to be normal.