The country's most expensive lunch in the Southeast

The worker in the Southeast and using meal voucher (electronic or paper) is that worn more for lunch away from home. That's what research shows average price of Meal disclosed by the Brazilian Association of benefit to the employee (ABBT). The average price of complete meal comes out R $34.49. The value is above the average in Brazil, which is R $34.14. The most expensive city in the greater Sao Paulo's Barueri where the price of complete meal comes out R $38.20. The second place is with Sao Paulo with R $34.33. The cheapest city is Diadema, with R $27.24. Official inflation measured by the IPCA closed 2017 with high of 2.95% accumulated. It is the lowest rate since 1998. According to the IBGE, which calculates the IPCA, the food consumed at home (-4.85%) pulled the drop in inflation. However, the food out of the House follows the year: + 3.83%. "We believe that other costs, such as cooking gas, electricity and water, for example, lobbied the establishments to make the transfer to the final price to consumers," says the Director-President of ABBT, Jessica Srour. Top of the list according to the research, the most expensive city is Florianópolis (SC): the average price of the full meal is R $40.85. Campo Grande (MS) recorded the lowest price: R $26.23. "Normally, cities that are tourist destinations have higher prices than the others", says she. To get the value of the full meal are the price of main course, non-alcoholic drink, dessert and coffee prices at lunchtime.