Avocados hit TEN dollars a piece – causing Mexican restaurants to take guacamole off their menus - most popular mexican restaurant dishes

New Zealand Avocado prices hit a record high of $10 per piece, leading some restaurants to remove avocado from the menu.
The fruit hit one last month.
A $5 time mark per piece, but that's nothing compared to this week's hiking.
The price increase confused customers at checkout and forced the restaurant to take away the avocado --
According to theNZ, the dishes on their menu.
Oakland Mexican restaurant La Fuente announced at the end of February that it will no longer provide avocado salad sauce on the menu until further notice. La Fuente co-
Owner Edmundo Farrera said the decision to cancel the staple food was made because he did not want to charge the customer too much.
Mr. Farrera and his wife, Anna, opened the restaurant in last November, and after noting that the price of avocado continued to rise, they decided to remove the dish from the menu.
We're little bosses.
The operator therefore has to be very careful with our prices and everything we invest in, Farrera said.
He said the restaurant owner's avocado price is usually between 50 cents and $2, but the price of avocado has been climbing since the beginning of this year.
Mr. Farrera said that guacamole was undoubtedly one of the reasons why customers came to the restaurant, so it was disappointing that there was no staple food on the menu.
He said it was about $14 for a plate of avocado sauce.
Depending on the size of the avocado-
But now the price of each dish can be as high as $20.
The restaurant owner is now negotiating with another supplier, hoping the restaurant will be able to re-launch the dish in the coming months.
I have been working in a restaurant for 26 years. . .
In my opinion, he said, the price of avocado seemed a bit drastic when it went up.
Farrera said that while the price volatility in his Mexico is common, it is completely different from the price increase in New Zealand.
In his view, growers should be more considerate of businesses when deciding what price to charge.
Jen Scoular, managing director of avocado in New Zealand, said the cost of the fruit reflects the yield of the crop.
'We have been through a mid-volume season recently and the supply is particularly low, 'says Scoular. MS
New Zealand currently accounts for two of the world's avocado production, but it is the world's ninth largest exporter of avocado.
Australia's Daily Mail contacted New Zealand Avocado and MrFarrera for comment.