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."

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.

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.

An upcharged from the store price

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.