99% of restaurants are just reselling Sysco food anyway
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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.
I don't actually have a proper kitchen back there
Great thing to say as a restaurant owner.
Delightfully devilish, Seymour!
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 ...
Honestly pretty good ad for Popeye’s…
I love fried chicken and I'm sure I'd be satisfied if I was unknowing served Popeye's at a nice restaurant.
Would you be satisfied that you paid $15 for half of a $10 Popeye's meal and some frozen waffles?
If I didn't notice then it worked.
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I heard they also secretly replaced their coffee with Folger's Crystals.
An upcharged from the store price
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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.
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They're still open as catering with the same name lol
How the hell did they discover this lmao
From the article:
The restaurant's troubles started after a customer allegedly saw Sweet Dixie employees carrying Popeyes boxes into the kitchen.
Maybe they were just having a party lol
That would be maybe even more damning. The employees of a fried chicken place getting their own food from across the street would send me running from that place.
Gross. People are buying and eating dead animals.
Bro ur not gonna BELIEVE what animals eat
I agree, gross! That's why I only buy and eat the finest live animals. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm afraid that is the human position in the circle of life.
It would be nice if humans could just absorb nutrition directly from sunlight and the soil.
As humans exist today, they need to consume energy and resources prepared by other life forms, be it fungi, bacteria, plants, or animals.
Animals. I said animals.
Humans can live off of plants just fine. Billions (trillions?) of us have for centuries.
Plants are alive. Why are animals special?
There's a climate catastrophe, did you notice? Largely its caused by burning fossil fuels and the animal industries.
Sustainable, and regenerative farming for the food supply is a cause I can get behind.
Locally sourced food is good for food independence and famine resistance. I'm on board.
I found this talk on sustainable ruminant agriculture fascinating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmwobXCc4c
One of the biggest things we could change, is moving away from grain fed animals. Which frees up the fields making the grain, the fertilizer for the grain... get the animals back to eating pasture/grass. A cow can produce 5kg of milk solids (protein!!!) per day, just eating grass (which no human can eat anyway).. Animals eating their natural diet are much more sustainable for the planet. Not to mention 15% of the earths surface is range land, not suitable for crops, but suitable for ruminants. Cultivated land is only 4% of earths surface, from that 4% we have to get all of our plant based foods. 15% > 4% so animal food has a place in a sustainable food supply
Then there is the discussion of how effective different foods are, if you need to eat 3kg of plant based food to hit the minimum RDA vs 300g of animal based foods, even if the animal food has a higher footprint it has to be measured in the context of human impact. https://hackertalks.com/post/5606539
Most people are already eating a massively plant based diet, something like 80% of people's diets in the world comes from plants, and people, especially women, are woefully under eating their protein requirements!
Ahh Jagged circle down voted this, so I suspect they don't actually care about sustainability, and their objection is something else. Pity, we could have had a productive discussion.
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some people can. most people would probably say they need meat and milk and eggs.
And those people would be wrong. Facts matter.
it's awfully patronizing to think you know someone's needs better than they do.
Do you also think it's patronizing to say that gravity exists? Facts are facts.
gravity exists, and you don't know what others need better than they do.
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Yes but animals are delicious.
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And they’re delicious!
This strat is not as effective as vegans think it is for changing people's minds. I don't know what works, but this one's clearly not it.
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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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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.
Lol. I do get Butter Chicken sauce from a distributor by the bucket, that's why butter chicken tastes the same in every hindu restaurant on this continent. However, I use it for Butter Chicken Onion Rings, have yet to see that anywhere else.
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