Facing lettuce shortage, restaurants toss the salad
Oct 25, 2021
Lettuce and other weather-sensitive vegetables took a direct hit, hence the short supply and soaring prices. The average wholesale price for a 10-kilogram box of medium-grade lettuce was 21,938 won ($18.76), a whopping 174 percent jump from a year ago. It was also 62 percent higher than the average over the past five years, according to data from the Seoul Agro-Fisheries and Food Corporation, w...