4 Types of Restaurants That Will Become More Expensive Due To Trump’s Tariffs

Yahoo! Finance ^ | 8/9/25 | Stacy Sare Cohen

[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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Four types of restaurants"
1. Neapolitan-Style Pizza Restaurants
2. Fast-Casual Concept Restaurants
3. Chef-Driven Mediterranean and Italian Restaurants
4. California Hospitality Restaurants

I'll bet everybody on FR is REALLY concerned about the success of "California Hospitality Restaurants." Right.

Dining out is SO expensive now that this poor dear in the pretty red dress in the Yahoo! article is going to weigh 80 pounds in no time at all. Just look at her plate! Maybe we need to launch a GoFundMe to get her some real food. I'd wager there's a HUGE Porterhouse on her beau's plate there.

Perhaps the high cost of food will make SOME people more attractive. But I doubt it...the UGLY in that grotesque Miss Piggy goes clear to the bone.

[Bigg Red]

I avoid buying produce from Mexico, so I would not want to patronize a restaurant that serves Mexican produce.

[Bigg Red]

No, thanks....

[Bigg Red]

::...eating when in season only makes sense.::

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Yes, and I buy local tomatoes in season and freeze them. Then, I can make my own ketchup and tomato sauce.

[Vermont Lt]

The ingredients of Mexican food can be obtained from other places.

Then they can be put together in the kitchen.

That’s how the rest of us do it.

[tumblindice]

Sapana Grossi
Ha ha ha ha ha

[ridesthemiles]

LOVE THAT GUY

[ridesthemiles]

THEY ARE EASY TO GROW IN POTS AT HOME

[DAC21]

Chubby Yahoo writers like Stacy Sare Cohen hit hardest.

[SuperLuminal]

My only objection to mexi tomatos is the sometimes smell and taste of urine...

Shouts of “POTG” ring loud and clear...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

All of them can be grown in the US and canned, dried or preserved in various other ways.

Fresh tomatoes year around are harder to come up with unless you use greenhouses and there is no reason not to use greenhouses.

A tomato imported from say Me-he-co will travel about a week to reach your store. That means that the tomato has to be picked green and ripened with gas before it hits the shelf.

There are a number of people who are working on greenhouse tomatoes that actually taste good and they can be in the store in under 24 hours which means they are picked ripe.

[Dr. Sivana]

So long as the fat asses eating at Mac Donald’s aren’t harmed!!!

For decades, McDonald's had no fresh tomatoes on the menu outside of the occasional cherry tomato on salads. The Big Mac has no tomato. The Quarter-Pounder has no tomato. The basic hamburger has no tomato.

In fact, most of McDonald's sandwiches that included a slice of fresh tomato were failures (Arch Deluxe, McLean Deluxe, McDLT). These days, temporary special items, and lesser known products like the Daily Double come with a tomato slice. That's about it. Burger King's Whopper always had tomato slices, to my knowledge.

[metmom]

Romas are easy enough to grow.

I grow them every year for canning for stewed tomatoes and sauce.

[metmom]

Whatever it takes to slap Mexico into line is fine with me.

Hey, I look at it this way, it's just getting back some of the remittances illegals have been sending over for years.

[KarlInOhio]

Do theirs make people sing Cyrkle's Red Rubber Ball like ours do?

The difference between a homegrown tomato meant for eating and an industrial one meant for shipping and slicing is amazing.

[Veto!]

My father was from Missouri and my mother from Massachusetts. One said tomato, one said tomahto. I was Daddy’s girl so I say tomato.
I live on less than $1500 a month and can easily afford tomatoes, eat 4 9r 5 small ones every day. And they’re organic.

[bigbob]

Same as pot factories

[4Runner]

The best Italian cooks at home or on the street in the U.S. use tomatoes grown, packed, and canned in Italy. What do Trump tariffs have to do with that sector of the economy? I thought he and the Italian Prime Minister were friends.

[Seruzawa]

Don’t insult my morning Sausage McMuffin with Egg!

[Verginius Rufus]

A liberal Texan named Hightower published a book more than 50 years ago, Hard Tomatoes Hard Times which claimed that modifications were made to tomatoes for the benefit of big business so they could be got to market more easily but at the expense of quality.

Or something like that--I didn't read the book but remember hearing about it.