Texas' Whataburger, Raising Cane's having bun crisis days after state's In-N-Out restaurants close

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In-N-Out Burger isn’t the only restaurant getting burned by bad buns.

Following news that every Texas location of the fast-food chain had closed
due to a lack of “normal, high-quality buns,” reports are emerging that
Texas’ Whataburger and Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers locations are also
being plagued by the same issue.

In-N-Out closed all of its 37 Texas restaurants on Monday, after
discovering that the buns provided to those locations did “not meet the
quality standards that we demand.” A new shipment was expected Tuesday,
though the stores remained closed through Wednesday.

In the days since, however, Texas-based chain Whataburger confirmed that
some its restaurants in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas would not be serving
their usual Texas toast or buns due to an issue with their supplier.

"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," the restaurant said in a statement provided to Fox News.

Instead of closing affected locations, Whataburger is offering to
substitute the unavailable white buns with wheat buns or flour tortillas,
and extended breakfast hours on Wednesday morning. On Thursday, the chain
confirmed to Fox News that "most" of its restaurants were resupplied with
fresh bread.

"Today we’re happy to update that most of our restaurants have received
fresh bread," the chain said in a statement. "We continue making
deliveries around the clock to replenish our entire selection of white
bread."

Raising Cane’s, a chicken chain that operates 20 locations in Texas, had
reportedly stopped serving Texas toast at all of them, but instead offered
customers an additional side or chicken fingers as a consolation of sorts,
reports KFOX, who dubbed the crisis "#Breadgate." The chain also said it
hopes the issue will be resolved by late Thursday or Friday.

"At Raising Cane’s, we never sacrifice quality and because of this, our
Texas restaurants are regrettably not serving our Texas toast," the chain
wrote in a statement obtained by Fox News. "This is not a food safety
issue. Our bread delivery did not meet our high quality standards for
taste and therefore we are offering customers a substitution of another
side item or additional chicken finger.

"The issue has been resolved and we hope to have bread in our restaurant
later today or by tomorrow."

Comments:

Whatlump
Gotta have good buns for the sake of the meat, right Don Lemon?
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Since they mention yeast, it is fair to speculate that they could not get
a good rise out of the buns...
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OMG!!! LMAO reading some of these comments..
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Who is their bread supplier and what is the quality issue? Poorly written
article...
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It says it is due to an imbalance in the yeast. They aren't putting the
name of the supplier so as to not cause a backlash against them. I respect
that decision.
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They mentioned the yeast in the article, but where does it say they are
protecting the name of their supplier? Seems that the supplier has cost
them a good deal of sales.
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It doesn't say that they are doing it specifically, but restaurants have
insurance for lost sales do to things like this. There is no reason to
drag the supplier through the mud if the supplier had made good faith
effort in preparation. I know that is a big "IF" but I can absolutely
respect the companies wanting to not hurt someone else for a mistake.

The yeast imbalance may not even be the supplier's mistake. It could have
been the supplier to the bakery that made the mistake.
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Mexicans working in the bakery.

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