India: At Burger King, guests are now required to do without one ingredient

Fried pie stuffed with sesame bread, garnished with cucumber slices, onion rings, lettuce and tomato slices. This is how you find out what is probably the most famous hamburger Burger King. One of these ingredients has been missing in India since Thursday.

After McDonald’s and Subway, Burger King in India has also made a cut tomatoes in the burger. “Even tomatoes need a holiday!” read a banner at a branch in the capital, New Delhi, on Thursday.

This is why tomatoes stagnate

The reason for this is the sharp rise in fruit prices in the country due to inflation and a poor harvest. Burger King explained that the quality and supply of tomatoes is “unpredictable” at the moment. This is why the chain is “unable to add tomatoes to our dishes”. But Burger King is doing its best to “put the tomatoes back in the burger.”

Fast-food rival McDonald’s had already cut tomatoes in July — “a temporary measure for seasonal reasons,” as it was called. Subway followed soon after and cited “quality problems” as the cause.

Lifting import restrictions from the neighboring country

India’s central bank also issued a statement on the topic of tomatoes last week. She said that the prices of fruits have increased due to bad weather and disease outbreaks in the country’s main growing areas. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government has lifted restrictions on tomato imports from neighboring Nepal.

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