It's not just low quality crap restaurants that do this. Like anything you get what you pay for. Better restaurants pay for better quality stuff but still mostly prepared by Sysco and finished at the restaurant.
It's not just low quality crap restaurants that do this. Like anything you get what you pay for. Better restaurants pay for better quality stuff but still mostly prepared by Sysco and finished at the restaurant.
I’ve worked back of house at a “almost michelan star” restaurant (best rated in town!) and even though the chef did actually go to the butcher for meat cuts, we still had a Sysco truck stopping by every day.
And that's for everything. Farmer growing wheat/chickens, cook making batter + cooking, syrup, banana growing, spices, clean up, waiter, etc.
Realistically if we're talking about just the restaurant bit there can only be a few dollars of labor and therefore maybe like 5 minutes of labor at most. Only way to achieve that is through scale.