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99% of restaurants are just reselling Sysco food anyway
Exactly. The headline could just as easily read "Customers discover their $30 meal is made with the same prepackaged food they serve down the street at a school cafeteria."
...last week i learned that the cafeteria food i grew up with was scratch-made; the reason it tasted the same everywhere wasn't because they all bought prepared foods from the same distributors, but because they all used the same USDA-provided recipes...
Many, many people need to realize that there are like 3 companies that own all food distribution in the US. People aren't talking out the ass when they say "late-stage capitalism"
After working in enough sysco-based restaurants I fucking hate eating out because that's all I can taste is sysco products. I only eat at places that make their stuff from scratch and that's hard to find, and spendy. But worth it.
Doesnt every restaurant do this with Sisco?
No. I run a bar and don't deal with Sysco whatsoever. Fucking garbage is what they bring. For example, the boxes of wings i get cost 80 dollars more than sysco wings, but they're old breed chickens with thick skins and strong bones, non rubbery meat, they don't grow to market weight in anywhere near the time the modern NA meat breeds do, these chickens taste like 1985. I don't have to batter them, they don't taste like shit. The extra money is worth it in customers actually wanting to eat the food here.
Where is this bar that offers these succulent wings?
this is how to find them
Tompkins, Saskatchewan. The wings are imported from Brazil.
Exactly. This is why every Americanized Chinese buffet tastes the same. Same for sports bars and so many other restaurants. They all get their food from either Sysco or Shamrock.
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I don't actually have a proper kitchen back there
Great thing to say as a restaurant owner.
Delightfully devilish, Seymour!
I heard they also secretly replaced their coffee with Folger's Crystals.
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Yeap. It do be like that. I once worked for an "ISP" computer shop that re-sold NetZero dialup and de-badged eMachines. (No surprise the owner was an ex-con who has since done time again.)
What if I told you most retail businesses - including restaurants - are just middlemen marking things up that you could buy cheaper elsewhere?
Restaurants, in particular, are famously difficult to operate at a profit. So if your local chicken place isn't way more expensive, and slower, and/or poor quality it's probably because they take shortcuts. Very very few places are making things from scratch.
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At a certain level every restaurant is up selling something from someone, if not Popeye, then the local supermarket, local wholesaler, butcher, farmer, family member ...
Everyone knows what Sysco products taste like, whether they realize it or not.
Honestly pretty good ad for Popeye’s…
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I worked at a restaurant that didn't stock all fruit/veg. When somebody ordered something they'd send me across the street to the grocery store, and then I'd bring the stuff through the back entrance. Seems similar here
Sometimes at the pizza joint we would get bad mushrooms from the truck. They were presliced and maybe someone let them set out at the factory? But sometimes they'd be slimy right off the truck. I'd toss them out, place a refund request, and then go to Kroger at 2-3AM after we closed to buy all their button mushrooms and slice them up.
Even more rare that we'd be so low I would go buy out two Kroger's. They aren't even 24 hour anymore. It's a shame, grocery shopping in the middle of the night after work was pretty nice.
I'm fine with getting ingredients needed to actually make the food, but if I go to your restaurant and order what is, supposedly, your food and you're just going to the place across the street and serving me that for more money I'd be pretty pissed.
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They're still open as catering with the same name lol
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