Freeze in crops leaves fast-food chains in a major bind

It’s not a mistake made in the kitchen if your Burger King Whopper arrives minus the usual two slices of tomatoes.

Burger King restaurants across the country have been running out of tomatoes sporadically for the past week, and that’s likely to continue in the wake of the freeze that devastated Florida’s tomato crop last month. The freeze hit growers at a time when the state normally would be supplying tomatoes for the majority of the Eastern seaboard.

The shortages have left fast-food chains, supermarkets and restaurants scrambling.

So far the tomato shortage is having limited impact on the consumer, but that could change in coming weeks as competition for scarce tomatoes heats up.

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