EDDYVILLE, Iowa —

An Eddyville restaurant is cutting salads off its menu due to skyrocketing lettuce costs.

In a Facebook post Wednesday morning, the owner of the Welcome Inn Bar and Grill posted a photo of the cost of 20 pounds of shredded lettuce, totaling just under $80.

Normally, she says, it's at most $23.

"I was like, what the heck?" Owner Netty Johnson said. She only came to the decision to remove salads from the menu entirely after she tried three different distributors to no avail.

"They're all way higher," she said.

Andrew Olsavsky, the Sales and Marketing Vice President of Des Moines-based produce distributor Loffredo Fresh Foods, says price spikes this year are expected.

Most lettuce seen in stores and restaurants is grown in California from April to November. This time

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