Food & Beverage

Australian KFCs mixing cabbage with lettuce due to shortage

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June 9, 2022

KFC customers in many areas of Australia are finding cabbage where all lettuce once sat on their burgers and wraps.

The QSR brand is doing a mix of lettuce and cabbage due to a supply chain disruption caused by heavy floods that wiped out lettuce crops earlier this year, according to a BNN Bloomberg report.

Australian consumers likely aren't shocked by the burger change as lettuce goes for high prices in the country, about $8 for head of iceberg. That's cheap compared to $25 for a watermelon, noted the news report.