It’s not a mistake if your Whopper arrives without 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 aftermath 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 East Coast.
The shortages have left fast-food chains, supermarkets and restaurants scrambling.
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