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There's a plethora of restaurants & fast food joints around where I live. With the food shortages I hear about happening in grocery stores, how are the restaurants & fast food joints seem to be doing great serving what is on the menu? Now that things are mostly back to normal to what it was pre-covid times, I occasionally dine-in at restaurants & fast food joints. I haven't had any issues with ordering what I want on the menu.
Sometimes, when I go grocery shopping, I sometimes see things out of stock or a smaller selection of a certain product that used to have a wider variety of flavors etc.
Alot of smaller restaraunts, bars, deli's etc probably do some shopping at the same stores. Especially if an item is on sale. Also in some neighborhoods some immigrant families buy in bulk and ship overseas, especially the non refrigerated stuff. Shopped at one store where people were buying cereal by the case because it was the cheapest retail price around. This was before the virus and probably still is going today.
There was a big scam in NYC about 10 years ago where people on food stamps got caught buying in high quantities then ship over seas. If your local supermarket sell shipping barrels that might indicate where a lot of their product is going
I am by no means a logistics expert, but I understand that restaurants and institutional food service use a different supply chain than grocery stores. So that's part of it. Also, I think the grocery shortages must be localized as I hear anecdotal issues about it but I haven't noticed it near me.
There's a plethora of restaurants & fast food joints around where I live. With the food shortages I hear about happening in grocery stores, how are the restaurants & fast food joints seem to be doing great serving what is on the menu? Now that things are mostly back to normal to what it was pre-covid times, I occasionally dine-in at restaurants & fast food joints. I haven't had any issues with ordering what I want on the menu.
Sometimes, when I go grocery shopping, I sometimes see things out of stock or a smaller selection of a certain product that used to have a wider variety of flavors etc.
Restaurants don't buy retail. My sister owns a restaurant. They get their food from a wholesaler, not the local Kroger.
Restaurants have a totally different supply chain.
When the Covid quarantines started growers of produce for restaurants were plowing under green beans. There were none to be had at the grocery store. Nobody ever figured out how the produce growers could sell to grocery stores.
Maybe there is no shortages. Just propoganda so the elite can continue to price gouge. Its not like you can put it past them these days
There are no shortages. It is just propaganda. But not by the “elite”. The propaganda is from conservatives who want to act like everything in America is awful, just because there is a Democrat in the White House.
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