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High lettuce costs are coming for Olive Garden’s never-ending salad. Darden Restaurants, which owns the casual dining chain in addition to Longhorn Steakhouse, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen and other restaurant chains, said that a spike in wholesale lettuce prices led to a big hit in the quarter ending November 27. “It was, call it, $4 million to $5 million impact in the quarter,” Darden CFO Raj Vennam said during a Friday analyst call discussing financial results. “That’s meaningful.
” California crop disease Crop disease in California, where much of the country’s lettuce is grown, has hit lettuce supply and forced prices to rise. This year there was “high incidence of virus infection that has affected the crop pretty significantly in some fields” in California, Almuhanad Melhim, a fruit and vegetable analyst at Rabobank, previously told CNN. “That led to really low supply and low quality of lettuce.
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