Sweet Tomatoes needs cheaper tomatoes, and so do other restaurants

Perhaps if I spent more time in the vegetable section of the supermarket than in the bakery department, I’d already know that the cost of certain vegetables — including tomatoes — has almost doubled since below-normal temperatures in Mexico, Florida and Texas have, as Time Magazine‘s Newsfeed website reported yesterday, negatively affected the U.S. supply of high-demand vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers.

A Sweet Tomatoes salad-buffet restaurant in Illinois, the story reports, didn’t have fresh tomatoes on the salad bar. Interestingly enough, neither does the one at 1309 Meadowlake Parkway in Kansas City.