Whataburger: El Paso not affected by white buns, Texas Toast quality issues
Whataburger is removing white buns and Texas Toast from some restaurants, citing quality concerns, but El Paso restaurants are not affected.
“We voluntarily removed white buns and Texas Toast from some of our restaurants because of a quality issue with one of our suppliers,” Whataburger announced via Twitter.
Amanda Kennedy, with Whataburger’s public relations team, told ABC-7 El Paso was not currently affected.
The move to remove the buns and toast elsewhere in Texas comes a day after In-n-Out announced it was temporarily closing all of its Texas stores because it was having problems with its hamburger buns.
The Texas-based burger chain released the following statement:
“We voluntarily removed white buns and Texas Toast from some of our restaurants in the DFW area, East and West Texas, Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas because of a quality issue with one of our suppliers. There’s no health risk at all, rather an impact on our bun’s flavor caused by an unbalance in the yeast, and we want to make sure our customers get the best product.
We understand this is frustrating to our loyal customers and apologize to those impacted by the shortage. We’re happy to make any burger or sandwich using a wheat bun, flour tortilla or bun-less on a platter at no extra charge. Customers visiting a restaurant experiencing a shortage of buns can enjoy extended breakfast hours until 1pm today.
Our bread is baked daily and our teams are working around the clock to deliver fresh buns today and we look forward to getting back to business as usual just as soon as we can.”
