Sysco is the food devil - video (11m)
 

I have been aware of Sysco for years, and nothing out of this video surprises me, but it's still crazy to hear.

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Ray Syufy was a bit of a POS, so this is no shocker

Sysco…. Don’t they supply the prison industry as well?

Most restaurants and according to the video, also prisons, yet.

Chain food is the devil, Sysco delivers to him.

It's not just chains that use Sysco. Little mom & pops use Sysco too. Sure, there are some mom & pops or small local places that make from scratch, but those are the exception.

Sysco is simply a small, small part of the food/health/pharma industry which is a criminal conspiracy that makes the tobacco industry look like choir boys. The invention of seed oils (along with all grains and all sugars/carbs) have been making us unhealthy for 100 years and the last 30 in particular. There is an obvious reason that chronic disease (diabetes, auto immune, cancer, brain diseases (now referred to as Type 3 diabetes), heart disease, etc.) has skyrocketed to epidemic levels in lockstep with the increase in consumption of manmade processed foods. Humans have never eaten this crap before. It's experimental, you are the experiment and the experiment has failed. Eat what we were meant to eat: real one-ingredient food - meat, eggs, produce, dairy. Nothing else.

The Unholy Trinity is a good start if you want to turn your health around.

Aren’t they putting mrna vaccines for livestock now?

US Foods is no better, fwiw. All of the "major" suppliers to restaraunts are major industrial players with all that entails.

The worst food on the planet possibly. Sysco rep shows up and says 'oh let me help you plan a menu'. Then it's plastic bags of frozen crap and somebody's life long dream goes up in smoke.

Spoiler alert…every food distributor buys premade products from the same suppliers. Want premade FF, only three major companies. Want premade salad dressing…two or three…
Pre made chicken, pork or beef products..yup, two or three.
All these food suppliers also offer local produce, proteins and “scratch” ingredients for those restaurants that want to go to the effort of cooking healthy, unique meals and that has the customer base that will pay the necessary price to keep them in business.
The challenge is Americans want it fast and cheap. Sorry, nothing cheap about running a restaurant when they have rent that is passing $10-15 sq’. Dishwasher and buss boys demanding $15 hr. Utilities skyrocketing, insurance rates that are crippling. Taxes that hitting them yearly for each table, chair, TV, plate, etc. in the restaurant.
Blaming a supplier for distributing products that people are buying is like blaming alcohol manufactures for DUI’s.
Restaurants make decisions to buy products that can sell. You make decisions on what restaurants you eat at. Stop buying the $hit and manufactures will stop making it, distributor will stop delivering it and restaurants will sell cleaner, more unique menus….and guess what, someone will still need to deliver those avocados in January to Boston…you know, that local avocado farm will be at the farmers market on Saturday.
You can buy Twinkies at the grocery store just like you can buy local, organic produce. Same with any restaurant supplier that is capable of delivering the volume a restaurant needs to survive.
If you want to feed 30 people, you can pack that in a car. Want to feed 300 per meal, a BIG truck is backing up to the location. That car or truck can be full of organic, fresh products or premade, hit the microwave button”cooked” items.

Right, it's like the old car thing, "Fast, cheap, and reliable, you can have 2." Restaurant, fast, cheap, healthy, you can't have them all. You can do "fast and cheap" or "healthy" but...

Their routers and switches weren't too bad back in the day...

I see the trucks everywhere :(

One of the worst parts of eating out is you never really know what’s in your food. Even the so called scratch kitchens, who is to say where they get their food from? One of multiple reasons why we seem to be eating at home more than ever. Also my wife is a killer cook, so that helps.

I'm no fan of Sysco (we had to use them for years when we were a TF), but I don't agree with the video that Sysco and the other distributors are responsible for all the bad foods and practices that restaurants use. They do give small restaurants access to pricing and products that used to only be available to large chains.

It's cool to hear your opinion being someone "in the biz".

What's "TF"? Franchize of some sort?

sorry tastee freez

I was so happy that you included the 11:00 minute time in the thread title, so I gave it 5 stars, but then when I clicked on the video it was 11:53 seconds, WTH!!!?!?!

But I'm not a complainer. You can keep the 5 stars, but please don't ever let that happen again.

I'm just munchin on some deep fried onion rings and enjoying my type III sysco diabeetus. :D

LOL! I'm using drag racing parlance. "it's a 9 second car" or "he broke into the 9s" means it ran a 9.99 or better.

Ah, I remember you saying that before. Thanks.

Are you guys doing your own thing these days or ...?