diff --git a/serverless-workflow-examples/serverless-workflow-foreach-quarkus/src/main/resources/foreach.sw.json b/serverless-workflow-examples/serverless-workflow-foreach-quarkus/src/main/resources/foreach.sw.json
index dbd6852ad6..b0a5e4212d 100644
--- a/serverless-workflow-examples/serverless-workflow-foreach-quarkus/src/main/resources/foreach.sw.json
+++ b/serverless-workflow-examples/serverless-workflow-foreach-quarkus/src/main/resources/foreach.sw.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     {
       "name": "increase",
       "type": "expression",
-      "operation": ".item + 1"
+      "operation": "$item + 1"
       
     }
   ],