"Our previous gas bill of 250-300.000 HUF will now be ~2.300.000 HUF!
Our gas supplier has unilaterally terminated our contract. Our previous gas bill of 250-300.000 HUF will now be ~2.300.000 HUF!
With more than 60 colleagues we hope for the best! Hang in there everyone, it's going to be a tough time! ?
But we have always been, are and will be with you!"- wrote Pizza Monkey from Szeged, enclosing the company's gas bill issued in mid-August. According to the picture, the money should be paid by Friday, but this is obviously not going to happen, the business will have to close.
G7 has found several other small businesses that have recently posted on Facebook that they can no longer operate due to rising costs.
Among them are a sushi shop in Miskolc, a bakery in Isaszeg, a playhouse in kiskunhalas, a wine shop in Székesfehérvár and a greengrocer in Dabas.
According to the newspaper article, "thousands of Hungarians will spend the next few days scratching their heads, taking their utility bills out of the letterbox and hunched over the kitchen counter, cluelessly counting.
The first bills have arrived, showing the prices that have been charged. You can see on the bills how much more expensive a week of unsubsidised consumption in August is than the three weeks before. But no one understands how these figures are calculated, what the gas and electricity suppliers apply the competitive price to and what they apply the reduced price to".
444 doesn't fully understand it either, but in this article they try to decipher what consumers see on their bills.
