FLORENCE - You might want to double check that menu the next time you go to a restaurant. Soaring food prices are not only impacting customers, but restaurant owners are starting to feel the pinch, and soon menus could see some changes.

When you go to a restaurant and see that plate of food piled high, you might not realize what goes into your main dish, might cost a little more coming out of your pocket.

Follow your nose, and it might lead you to Mo's legendary restaurant in Florence. "We always have to stop at Mo's when we go to the coast," says customer Marietta Van Eekeren.

Regulars stop in for their favorites. "I like the fish and chips, they're really good," says one customer. Another adds: "I come for the shrimp salad." "Clam chowder," adds another.

The steaming hot claim to fame is ladled out in masses. In fact on a busy day, Mo's dishes out up to 105 gallons of chowder, and about 48 loaves of bread. It's an amount that costs the restaurant a pretty penny thanks to soaring food prices for main ingredients like milk, cheese and bread.

"I know bread has gone up about 8% I'm not sure how much milk has gone up as well," says assistant manager Rachel Williams.

One of the reasons their struggling with their prices is because key ingredients like butter have gone up. In 2007 the Bureau of Labor statistics says butter rose by about 50% and it also costs more money just to deliver it here.

"It's the fuel, the surcharge that we're doing is it's gone up a lot," adds Williams.

Mo's employees say despite it all, they're trying not to dish out the costs to consumers. Williams says "we won't raise our prices unless it's absolutely necessary." And even if they do, some customers say they'll keep coming back for more. "You kind of look at it and go ahh, but you know if you want to eat you want to drive, you do it, you pay you go, you drive and you eat," says customer Vickie Higgins.

We checked in with other restaurants in Florence, employees told us they are feeling the crunch of rising prices too. One place even told us they are coming out with new menus next week with prices that are 50 cents to one dollar more to cope with the problem.