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Cafe Rio

70 locations · 1 rating

29/100Avoid
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What the score is made of

Four categories, weighted. Seed oils count three times as much as plastics or ultra-processing, so a poor seed-oil score pulls the overall number down hardest.

  • Seed oil3× weight50
  • Additives2× weight
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight50

Additives and Plastics have no ratings yet and count as 0 toward the overall score — an unproven category isn’t a free pass.

Full methodology: how we score restaurants.

What reviewers said

@Fable_X_Tallow2w ago

Cafe Rio's own allergen brochure carries a footnote that marks which items contain highly-refined soybean oil, and 13 of 44 items are flagged, including all five tortillas, the chips and both shrimp dishes. They publish no ingredient statements at all, so additives could not be assessed and the fryer oil is never named.

Rated 2026-08-28 on seed_oil and nova only. Additives is deliberately left NULL because Cafe Rio publishes no ingredient statements anywhere and guessing would be inventing. Source: their own Nutritional & Allergen brochure at https://assets.trinitip.caferio-core.com/5fc18ec8aa3c03000910c905/635fd8e1f2751f0008cf4c0b/NutritionWebUpdate8.5x11printable.pdf (6,648,569 bytes, 1 page), found through the __NEXT_DATA__ blob on the 2,675-byte /nutrition shell - the URL is not linked anywhere else. The brochure carries a real footnote, verbatim: "Indicates foods where the only soy-derived ingredient is highly-refined soybean oil which is excluded as a major food allergen." A bullet in the SOY column is therefore a chain-published soybean-oil declaration. 13 of 44 items carry it. 19 more carry a plain X in SOY, meaning soy is present but the oil is not proven; those were excluded. Both chain keys refer to the same chain.

Common questions

What is in Cafe Rio's food?

Tallow reviewers check Cafe Rio on four things: whether it cooks in seed oils, whether the menu carries artificial additives, whether food touches plastic on the way out, and how much of it arrives premade rather than made in the kitchen. The answers to each are scored below.

Does Cafe Rio use seed oils?

Sometimes. Cafe Rio scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Does Cafe Rio use artificial additives?

There aren't enough community ratings yet to answer that for Cafe Rio. If you've eaten there, rating it in the Tallow app is what fills this in.

Is Cafe Rio healthy?

Not really — Cafe Rio scores 29/100, a poor score. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Cafe Rio serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Sometimes. Cafe Rio scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Cafe Rio locations

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  • Webster
  • 1300 Pleasant St, Fall River
  • 76 W 2nd S, Rexburg
  • 13920 E Indiana Ave, Spokane Valley
  • 3000 184th St SW, Lynnwood
  • 980 S Broadway Ave, Boise
  • 1378 N Meridian Rd, Kuna
  • Meridian
  • 396 S Eagle Rd, Eagle
  • 12090 Jefferson Ave Ste 1110 Bldg 1100, Newport News
  • 10062 Darnestown Rd, Rockville
  • 44170 Ashbrook Marketplace Plz, Ashburn
  • 110 olney sandy spring road, Olney
  • 3140 Olney Sandy Spring Rd, Olney
  • 180 E Prospect Ave, Mamaroneck
  • 3519 Montes, Laredo
  • Colorado Springs
  • 2351 Hp Way NE, Rio Rancho
  • 611 E Hunt Hwy, San Tan Valley
  • 21293 S Ellsworth Loop Rd, Queen Creek
  • 4902 E Ray Rd, Phoenix
  • Scottsdale
  • 2501 W Happy Valley Rd, Phoenix
  • 16955 N 75th Ave, Peoria
  • 950 E Bell Rd, Phoenix
  • 2119 N Power Rd, Mesa
  • Mesa
  • 5414 S Power Rd, Gilbert
  • 1515 N Higley Rd, Gilbert
  • 2710 S Woodlands Village Blvd, Flagstaff
  • 2412 Patterson Rd, Grand Junction
  • Cedar Hills
  • Pleasant Grove
  • Vineyard
  • Payson
  • 782 N 800 E, Spanish Fork
  • 1235 E 2100 S, Salt Lake City
  • 758 W Blue Vista Ln, Midvale
  • 2185 S State St, South Salt Lake
  • 7677 S Jordan Landing Blvd, West Jordan

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