/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11199841
Sysco is a food distributor. What's the point of this thread?

>>11199981
If a restaurant isn't supplied by Sysco™, that's no restaurant for me. I love Sysco™, and I thought I'd make a thread to discuss Sysco™ with other anons who love it too!

>>11199841
thats the most generic looking brand logo I've ever seen. looks like a made up corporation in some video game.

>>11200060
You've got it backwards. Major corporations all have logos like this, which is imitated in art and media. It's just that as a food supply company, you eat their food at nearly every restaurant you patronize, but restaurants are kind of embarrassed by it so they don't tell you and you don't recognize the Sysco brand

Do Americans really pay to eat reheated frozen food at restaurants?

>>11200770
No, I personally love the new fresh beef Quarter Pounder®* burgers. Each one of our Quarter Pounder® with Cheese, Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese and Signature Crafted® Recipe burgers is made with 100% fresh beef from North America and cooked right when you order it. It’s hotter**, juicier** and full of flavor.

*Weight before cooking 4 oz. (ea.) Available at most restaurants in contiguous US. Not available in Alaska, Hawaii, and US Territories. **Compared to prior ¼ lb. beef patty

>>11199841
Sysco makes some surprisingly good hot dogs.

>be me in austin
>walking past stubb's bbq
>giant sysco truck parked out front, delivering ALL their food
>appetite demolished

>>11200060
I remember it used to be this cube where the edges were the Y in the name

>>11199841
Some Sysco food is surprisingly nice. Their supreme label stuff and special orders in particular. It's still hilarious to me that 90% of all restaurant food is just repurposed Sysco shit, though.

>>11200854
They still use that logo. Some of their packaged stuff also still have the really ancient Sysco logo with the serif font.

Without sysco 90% of flyovers would have to face the reality that they are too poor to eat at actual restaurants

>>11199841
Shut the fuck up, Gordon Food Service is better.

>>11201088
This is objectively wrong

>>11201236
Explain.

>>11201682
Huh?

>>11199841
Based
Everything from the restaurant I work at comes from Sysco, ama

>>11199841
>Not Sodexo
I've had some pretty bangin' melts made by their wage slaves

>>11203402
What kind of restaurant do you work at? Is it a boomer-tier strip mall 'restaurant', or some place where you might not suspect it to be a Sysco joint?

>>11203419
What's the main problem with Sysco?

>>11203419
It’s a very popular restaurant on the beach in white rock, BC

>>11199981
I'm a little unclear on this also. This can't be a clumsy attempt at viral marketing because absolutely no one is going to take the time to figure out whether or not the drive through chain on the corner is supplied by Sysco before they go there. Seems pointless.

>>11203426
Nothing really, although restaurant goers tend to think everything is made from scratch wherever they eat, so it’s a shock for them to know we buy it from a supplier

>>11199981
>>11203440
The joke is that most places are supplied by Sysco so everytime you go to a different restaurant you're basically eating the same thing you ate at another restaurant.
Especially when that restaurant doesn't make it's own food and just uses the premade stuff Sysco sells ie desserts, some meats, dressings/sauces, and frozen fried food

>>11203448
Oh ok.

So in a way I should be thankful to Sysco for making it so easy to tell which bars are making their own mozz sticks and which ones are just pulling them out of a freezer bag.

>>11203448
They custom make whatever the restaurant calls for, so that blanket statement is a bit inaccurate.

Can I get Sysco delivered straight to my house so I never have to go out to eat again?

>>11203462
>they custom make whatever the restaurant calls for
Yeah in some cases but largely no they dont.
>>11203461
Whatever floats your boat m8

>>11203468
This is an important question deserving of an answer

>>11203468
Schwann's will.
>>11203469
Do you expect gourmet food in every establishment?

>>11203468
They ship in pretty big orders, but you could contact them and ask lmao

>>11203480
I expect anywhere charging me more than $15 for an entree to not buy frozen garbage that was obviously microwaved.
It's the reason I don't go to big chain restaurants like Olive Garden

>>11203494
Ahh so you're expecting the best foods in the world to enter your fuckhole at the lowest cost. Olive garden probably makes $2.70 off that plate. What the fuck do you expect for your poverty tier budget?

>>11203480
No but if I have a choice between walking one block up the street for a boilermaker and some fried snacks that came out of the freezer and walking one block down the street for the same drink and some food that's noticeably better, I'm going with the latter. My point is that things like mozzerella sticks and jalapeno poppers are so uniform across so many bars because they're apparently all supplied by Sysco that it really stands out when you can tell they just have Aunt Bertha back in the kitchen making her """secret""" recipe.

>>11203480
Schwann's is expensive as hell, though.

>>11203480
Hmm. I inadvertently learned something today. I was just kidding, but I might actually try this

>>11203507
Isn't it mainly cause you have to buy in bulk? But if you do the calculation it still comes out cheaper than actually going to a sit down restaurant? I mean, it must since it's not like the restaurant is not selling this expensive food back to you at a markup

>>11203461
>someone poorly copied the Apple Cabin Foods flyers

>>11203494
I sometimes get a NY Strip at Red Lobster (don't ask, its' a long story). Do you think they microwave it? Every time I ask for medium rare it always comes medium or worse.

>>11203499
You're putting words in my mouth
Do you have any idea how easy and cheap it is to make fresh food that keeps customers coming back? If I'm eating out, I don't want to pay extra to eat frozen food I could go pick up at the grocery store.
>Olive Garden probably only made $2.70 off that plate
I very much doubt that
Restaurants don't put things on their menu if they're not going to make at the very least 45% of it's cost back

>>11203533
I doubt anyone is stupid enough to microwave a steak and serve it to someone but who knows it's Red Lobster
>medium rare
You'll probably never get a steak medium rare at a chain restaurant because 90% of the time the cook back there is a highschool student/college student/wageslave who is just there for the paycheck.

>>11203533
Under a salamander. Your shitty server probably cooks it in the window

>>11203559
Nah I'm serious, worked for darden in college. They post every servers average, you get gbp for pushing drinks and add ons. These restaurants thrive on volume: get them in and out.

>>11203566
>You'll probably never get a steak medium rare at a chain restaurant because 90% of the time the cook back there is a highschool student/college student/wageslave who is just there for the paycheck.
Yeah. That's kinda what I thought.

I'm currently sitting at the bar patiently waiting for my shift beer while the chef and gm negotiate with the Sysco rep. Looks like a really intense poker game. Sysco fucking sucks lol

>>11203575
>they thrive on volume
Now they do. Remember when Applebees, Chilis, Outback, Red Lobster, Olive Garden etc used to not be a bad place to go get a meal? It was because they were serving food that wasn't garbage and overpriced. All those restaurants I've listed have lost a considerable amount of business over the last decade because they started skimping on portions and buying cheaper product, as well as increasing prices and the average consumer doesn't like it. The only ones doing business are the ones in busy areas like college towns or boomerville.

>>11203613
This was back in 98-02 era for reference.

>>11203613
I remember getting excited to go to Bennigan's because I thought the food was so good there. But I figured it's just because I was a kid with no taste back then. Maybe it really was better at that time.

>>11203640
It's a bit of both
We grew up and got better taste while all these restaurants simultaneously got worse

>>11203640
Montechristo rocks. Their tendie batter is made with soda water, btw.

>>11203613
The fate of everything that gets too popular and profitable for its own good. Remember: McDonald's started off as a single, high quality local burger stand and Bacardi used to win medals and be called for by name.

>>11203649
>The fate of everything that gets too popular and profitable for its own good

>>11200846
Sysco doesn't make anything.

>>11201088
Wrong. While GFS is a good distributor they have a much smaller catalog of items.

>>11203532
I will never not laugh at adpple cabin

>>11203751
I went to their store a few times. They literally have just one of everything in a big box with no variety. You have no choice in anything. Costco has more variety. I never looked at their catalog so I figured it was just cause that's all they could fit into their small-ish store. On the other hand, they have lots of pretty good tasting premade stuff, like lasagnas, enchiladas, soups, potato salad that type of shit. Worth it for that alone.

>>11203771
>business lamb
>raisin zeta jones

>>11203461
>>11203532
>>11203823
STOP

>>11203828
???

>>11203832
Huh?

>>11203841
Quand?

>>11203798
is it packaged like US Govt generic food?
(for me this is a positive)

>>11203878
It might as well be. It's the closest thing to a label-less store brand.

>>11199841
The same, from Maine to New Mexico! That's the American experience!

>>11203734
Don't be melodramatic. It's just executives and shareholders realizing they have pricing power and can charge a bit more for a bit less.

>>11204046
They have pricing power because Boomers kept voting in corporatists who let companies endlessly merge until there's only three or four company that control >80% of the market share in almost all industry.

>>11204046
shut up faggot it's a joke

Fuck Sysco they are the shittiest fuckers.

>Used to work at an amusement park
>Everything Mon/Wed/Fri they'd come and drop off a few pallets of food for use around the park.
>Pallets were always stacked wrong and tilting
>At least 4-6 crushed boxes in every pallet
>Put frozen items at the bottom the pallet
>Boxes of heavy shit on top of bags of ketchup
>At least once a month the truck driver managed to drop a pallet off the side of his truck

>>11204070
They have pricing power because enough people can't tell the difference between the before and after and just keep eating there because of branding. Nobody's relying on these chains to survive and getting ripped off.

>>11204071
If you act like the chicken little morons who populate this site then you can expect to be mistaken for them.

>>11204085
>pallets were always stack wrong and tilting
Fucking this had a delivery guy put a case of eggs at the bottom of a 15 box stack and tried to argue with my boss because we obviously needed new eggs after the entire case got crushed

>>11204114
Companies that make commodity goods aren't supposed to have pricing power. Artificially creating a massive barrier to entry by locking customers into multi-year discount agreements and buying out dozens of competitors over the decade is how Sysco ended up with pricing power.

>>11204085
>>11204117
it's spelled palate

>>11204139
Good point. I thought you were talking about the restaurants themselves.

>>11203734
Wait when was the age of intellect? Are we in it now?

>>11204212
No. That was the 20th century. We developed general relativity and quantum mechanics, created planes and computers, and literature philosophy and the arts peaked at this time. It's all degeneracy from here.

>>11204212
The Western world is in the Age of Decadence right now. Note that just about every one of those descriptors is currently true. The Age of Intellect was probably the Space Race era for the United States.

For reference, this book (John Glubb's 'The Fate of Empires') was published in 1978, so it's not like the Age of Decadence stuff was written describing the [current year] from a contemporary perspective; more so prophetic.

>>11204257
>>11204238
>>11204212
lmfao In every moment of recorded history there has been someone saying this about an age just gone by. If you seriously believe we aren't learning important things on a daily basis it's because you're out of the loop.

Fun fact: The bbq sauce used in Carl's Jr. western bacon cheeseburger is literally just sysco bbq sauce.

>>11204292
Let's see. Physics is in a tailspin right now because of the conflict between string theory and the cosmological constant, meaning one has to be wrong, meaning we don't know what the fuck we are doing. Not to mention the always controversial multiverse idea. We're either at a precipice or at the end of science. Time will tell, but it's definitely not a good time for physics. Moore's law is stalling (again maybe there will be another leap soon, but maybe not. Quantum computers look more like a meme day by day.) And don't even get me started on the shabby state of the arts, low and high alike.

>>11204292
>we are no longer capable of achieving the same feats of space travel that we had done decades ago
>service weapon is still the M16
>Apple releases the same "new" iPhone for the 6th year in a row

>>11204301
>We're either at a precipice or at the end of science
Wew lad, scientific Fukuyamaism

>>11204319
Don't kill the messenger. Many prominent scientists themselves are the ones spreading this meme far and wide. Of course it could be myopic and wrong. We can't know that from where we are.

>>11204301
>multiverse
surely no actual scientists think this is true

>>11203798
They have full distribution warehouses that stock way more items than what they carry in their storefronts. They're still pretty huge. Not huge like Sysco though

>>11204301
please dont talk about physics you obviously know nothing about it. There have always been things that we dont understand in physics and the accepted theory on many things has been btfod many times, thats how a field develops. Just because theres no meme theory of everything doesnt mean none of the physics we have now is right you fucking subhuman. I don't know why I'm even replying to you on the cooking board but I'd just like to tell you that you're a subhuman and part of the problem with modernity.

>>11199841
We used to use Sysco.
Costco & Jetro are cheaper, though.

>>11203448
Susco also sells canned goods, dry goods, cleaning supplies, paper goods and dishware.
You don't know that the restaurants are buying premade foods.

>>11204526
>he is too poor and unsuccessful to afford Premium SYSCO products

>>11204551
Pardon me for pursuing a sustainable business model.
We don't buy anything premade, anyway, and buy expensive meat, fish, dairy, bread, and veggies, so.

>>11204503
I'm repeating, word for word, things from a physics journal.

>>11200853
How did you know it was all their food? To unload an entire menu takes time

>>11204567
link me the journal where it says that physics in a tailspin because of the conflict between string theory and the cosmological constant

>>11204503
Feynman himself once said that there may never be one theory to explain everything. That instead it could turn out (his words) that reality is an infinitely layered onion that you could (IF only you could) peel back forever.

>>11204587
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

>>11204503
>none of the physics we have now is right
Except I never even suggested anything of the sort...

>>11204587
http://archive.is/ZfNPU

>>11204608
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaTur4A1OU

>>11204606
not really relevant to what I said. The chimp i replied to was saying that physics was in a tailspin and that was indicative of some kali yuga cultural stagnation bullshit. We don't need a perfect theory to have theories that can predict reality with a very good degree of accuracy.

>>11204610
you suggested physics was in a tailspin when it's not at all and there have been big questions and conflicts between theories forever. Theres lots of progress being made in physics and other sciences but you won't hear about it because you're a brainlet not involved in those fields so until someone wins the nobel prize and vsauce makes another video you'll think that science is either at a precipice or close to ending.

>>11204612
your link doesnt work faggot nigger shitskin

>>11204650
>your link doesnt work faggot nigger shitskin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZIR-eZdvGk

>>11204587
You're the one who is uninformed if you don't even know what's being published in a POPULAR physics journal...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/dark-energy-may-be-incompatible-with-string-theory-20180809/

>>11204612
i aint clickin dat shit nigga

>>11204650
And the word "tailspin" is meant to illustrate how physicists themselves feel about the state of their field, and say so frequently. It's not just this one thing about string theory and the cosmological constant, but a compounding effect of all the dead ends. LHC not being able to find susy. Everyone saying all this talk of the multiverse is philosophy and not science. And now this.

>>11204625
wow i haven't seen that in years

>>11203823
"Hey look! It's Salty Pals!" and "Chicken Whispers" still get me every time

damn, sysco even provides sauces

that cute little italian bistro that makes the best marinara isn't special at all. they use the same sauce as everybody else.

>>11204850
>ultra premium
Huh?