Today I Learned (TIL)

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."

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.

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.

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.

Everyone knows what Sysco products taste like, whether they realize it or not.

I love fried chicken and I'm sure I'd be satisfied if I was unknowing served Popeye's at a nice restaurant.

You got me there, burgers from scratch, but I have to tell people I haven't seen before that this isn't fast food, it's gonna be a half hour. I premake and freeze the patties, but it takes nearly ten minutes ( in this old ass radiation king dial microwave from the 80s i found new in a box, that thaws meat without cooking it) to thaw just one patty, although I make 3/4 pounders

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.

From the article:

The restaurant's troubles started after a customer allegedly saw Sweet Dixie employees carrying Popeyes boxes into the kitchen.

I mean if they keep getting from the same place, or even area, people are going to catch on. They'd presumably be getting a lot of chicken weekly, if not daily and probably sent the same person to pick it up every time.