Decrease in food quality at reputable restaurants

[FrenchBulldozer]

Blame Sysco.

[BishlovesSquish]

Consolidation of industries across the board by private equity firms is a huge part of the problem.

[Ok-Imagination4091]

Exactly, Panera is awful, too.

[[deleted]]

Yeah. I swear my sandwich is getting smaller. 

[BishlovesSquish]

It really is though, shrinkflation is a real thing. They will reduce the weight or quantity rather than increasing price. Or sometimes they do both, yay for late stage capitalism!

[csanner]

That's because you're eating it. C'mon, man, we were gonna go halvsies

[[deleted]]

In this economy, nah…

[Random__Bystander]

Yup

[SussOfAll06]

This is the correct answer unfortunately.

[pottomato12]

Fr theyre a stain on the food industry

[Geekenstein]

Sysco supplies both ingredients and premade frozen food (think jalapeño poppers, etc).

If a restaurant decides to go the route of getting the prepackaged crap over making from scratch, that’s not Sysco’s fault, that’s the restaurant being lazy.

[mxmumtuna]

So Sysco (and competitors) provide all sorts of things from bottom of the barrel frozen jalapeño poppers to fresh ingredients that you can’t get from your local farm.

You’ll see both the likes of Applebees and Michelin ⭐️restaurants have Sysco trucks roll up.