The restaurant’s signature soup requires 16-20 hours of simmering on a gas stove, but between November and January, the bill jumped from $800 to $8,000.
Tre Dinh is not the only restaurant owner in California to see a big jump in the natural gas bill.
Some San Diego restaurant owners saw a 400% surge in January.
For instance, Rudford's Restaurant owners Jeff and Nick Kacha received an $8,200 gas bill and told “Fox & Friends” in early February that they felt betrayed by politicians as they don’t represent the people in San Diego.