By Amy Hubbard
March 5, 2014, 7:54 a.m.



Chipotle stirred up the media and guacamole lovers with news that it could "suspend" guacamole from its menu due to global warming.


But a restaurant spokesman tells the Los Angeles Times: "This is way overblown."

The annual report from the restaurant chain warned:

"Increasing weather volatility or other long-term changes in global weather patterns, including any changes associated with global climate change, could have a significant impact on the price or availability of some of our ingredients. ...

"In the event of cost increases with respect to one or more of our raw ingredients, we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas, rather than paying the increased cost for the ingredients."

Chipotle's Chris Arnold told the L.A. Times on Wednesday morning that the disclosure was routine: "As a public company ... we are required to disclose any potential issues that could have potential impact on our business, and we do that very thoroughly."

So far, Chipotle is handling weather-related problems with ingredients just fine.

As NPR points out, avocados seem to be in plentiful supply despite vagaries of climate change that resulted in "lemon-sized" Hass avocados.

"The sky is not falling," Arnold said. "We have guac in all of our restaurants."

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Amazing how a little damage to the bottom line can result in a swift retraction/correction/apology/whatever it takes....

Oh!!! We want to be PC and talk up global climate change, but we don't want it to hurt our profitability.

Please, everyone, come, see we still have plenty of guacamole....

with just a little egg on our faces.