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Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican

82 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 Fresh Modern Mexican's food?

Tallow reviewers check Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican 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 Fresh Modern Mexican use seed oils?

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

Does Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican use artificial additives?

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

Is Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican healthy?

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

Does Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican serve premade or ultra-processed food?

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

Cafe Rio Fresh Modern Mexican locations

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  • 900 10th Ave S, Great Falls
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  • 2537 S 25th E, Ammon
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