Posted on 08/09/2025 2:59:03 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Whether you pronounce the delectable fruit (yes, it’s a fruit) as tomato or tomatto, Trump’s Mexican tariffs are forcing many dining establishments to either raise prices and risk losing customers, revamp menus or swallow the cost and bleed margin, said Sapana Grossi of Shah Grossi Law Firm, a business attorney specializing in the food and beverage industry.
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“Whether you pronounce the delectable fruit (yes, it’s a fruit) as tomato or tomatto, “
What about usn’s what likes a ‘mater samitch.
I do not give a rat’s ass.
Make your own damn food.
1. Neapolitan-Style Pizza Restaurants
2. Fast-Casual Concept Restaurants
3. Chef-Driven Mediterranean and Italian Restaurants
4. California Hospitality Restaurants
All of them use Roma tomatoes - there are no other kind to substitute?
They can be water, fertilizer, and season-intensive. US tomato consumption cannot be met with domestic production. This is especially true outside of the growing season, when the ONLY tomatoes grown domestically are in hothouses. This is what necessitates importing them, mostly from Mexico.
ahhh... so help me to figure out how to grow tomatoes from October-April.
Not that yield the same flavor, texture, color, and overall product of Roma. Every tomato variety has its own characteristics - from a fairly wide taste and color pallet, to a big one when cooking: texture. From heavily-meaty varieties, to the sauce varieties. And each has different growing requirements.
On the other hand, Romas are, in my personal experience, among the easier varieties to grow. But quantity of production can still be a challenge to meet the demand. Romas are likely the most popular variety for cooking.
Yep. Restaurants are so expensive already that a few cents more due to tariffs will make no difference. If the proprietors want to price-gouge and blame it on tariffs, well, I wasn’t likely to eat there anyway.
Whatever it takes to slap Mexico into line is fine with me.
Hydroponics
no mention of the impact of insane minimum wage levels on the cost of eating out, though ...
grok sez:
The number one operational cost for most restaurants is labor costs. This includes wages, benefits, and payroll taxes for staff such as cooks, servers, and managers. Labor typically accounts for 25-35% of a restaurant’s total operating costs, driven by the need for skilled workers and high staff turnover rates.
Sure thing. The reporter: “Hey, look, Boss! I’ve found something we can hang on Trump!” “What is it, steel production? Auto imports? Materials cost for building projects?” “No. Better than that. It’s tomatoes! We could call it the tomato crisis! Higher costs for ketchup! Urban tomato deserts!!” “Right! Get right on it!”
In other words, it’s mostly affecting liberals.
Yeh. When I started price gouging during Covid, I said multiple times the prices will never go back down again. In fact they’ve potentially grown. You can’t even get out of five guys hamburger joint with two meals for less than 50 bucks anymore. We now mostly eat at home. Screw all these price gouging restaurants with their mediocre, bland, lack of effort food, oh and then they want a 30% tip on top of that. Forget it.
And being in Arkansas you know the season lasts longer in the southern part of the state. Along with Ala, Miss, GA, Fla, SoCal, etc.
So long as the fat asses eating at Mac Donald’s aren’t harmed!!!
No. Roma taste like roma, and are better for... well almost everything honestly. Beefsteak tomatoes are terrible.
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