Tostitos Tortilla Chips, Original Restaurant Style

Tostitos Tortilla Chips, Original Restaurant Style (12 oz) sit squarely in the grocery snack aisle, often shelved alongside other bagged chips, pretzels and near the salsa, queso and party-dip displays. The bag’s bright, familiar branding signals a go-to party chip: intended for gatherings, tailgate boxes, movie-night shopping trips and casual weeknight snacking. The “Restaurant Style” name evokes the thin, round, lightly salted chips you’d scoop at a casual dining spot—thin, brittle-crisp texture with a clean toasted-corn flavor and a neutral surface that takes dips well. Packaging is a flexible printed bag sized for sharing; many shoppers buy it to empty into a communal bowl for game-day spreads, backyard barbecues or a quick road-trip snack. Brand positioning is mainstream and social: Tostitos markets itself as the accessible, party-ready chip for families and groups, leaning into convivial moments and easy entertaining rather than health messaging. The ingredient list is short—corn, vegetable oil (corn, canola, soybean and/or sunflower) and salt—and the label lacks organic certification or child-focused cartooning; instead it uses a simple, familiar aesthetic that can create a mild “made from corn” natural halo despite being a mass-produced snack. Processing context: these are industrially produced fried tortilla chips made from processed corn, then seasoned and bagged. Sensory cues—thin snap, coarse surface that clings to salsa, warm golden color—make them ritualistic: scoop, crunch, share. Nutrition per provided panel: about 140 calories and 115 mg sodium per serving, reinforcing their role as an indulgent, shareable convenience food.