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Post by Clipper on Sept 29, 2022 8:02:14 GMT -5
wibx950.com/heres-the-reason-restaurants-might-be-facing-a-new-food-shortage/A prospective devastating blow to Restaurant owners who are already feeling the pain of staff shortages and now they may find themselves having to close because they don't have the food and supplies to remain open. This is one strike that I predict will be short lived. Sysco cannot afford to be shut down for more than a day or so. I am sure that they have a huge inventory of perishables that they can't afford to lose. I believe that the teamsters have them over the barrel. At least Utica still has Casa Imports and a wide variety of local food producers to fall back on. The Italian restaurants will still be well stocked with your favorites and you will be able to wash them down with a cold Matt's or Saranac. How inconvenient could it be to have to temporarily live on locally sourced foods? I would be in heaven. Nothing to eat but great lasagna, riggies, pizza, locally produced sausage, and great pastries and breads, all produced right in Utica. Don't panic yet. WALMART and Price Chopper won't have to turn out the lights and close the doors. 
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Post by clarencebunsen on Sept 29, 2022 16:59:13 GMT -5
My son says that Casa's policy is to take care of their customers first, only excess items can go to Sysco's customers. Casa is already short of both warehouse employees and drivers. He has helped out in the warehouse after his regular day job occasionally this fall, but he can't do that on a full time basis.
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Post by Clipper on Sept 29, 2022 19:02:28 GMT -5
Casa is always short of drivers. I think that the 50lb sacks of pizza flour and cases of gallon cans of pizza sauce are a big contributor to that. I worked there for only a couple of days. Wheeling two wheeled carts down cellar stairs with 200lbs of flour or 5 or so cases of canned sauce was more than my back could tolerate. Those guys bust their butts. I had to be at the yard at 5 am and didn't get back in until after 7 pm.
I wanted to get out of the over the road driving so I could be home every night. I was fortunate that my former employer hadn't hired anyone to take the truck that I had vacated and I went back to work for him the following day.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Sept 30, 2022 8:55:56 GMT -5
It has probably gotten worse in recent years. The Casamente family sold to a NJ company a few years ago. There are a couple family members still there but most have retired and I guess no one in the current generation was a likely candidate to run the business. He has called the current owners NJ mafia which might be a joke. I'm not sure.
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Post by Clipper on Sept 30, 2022 10:43:48 GMT -5
Even back then the guy that was training me said that there was not enough trucks or drivers for the workload. The loads were large and the routes were long, and that is why the hours were so long. It was definitely a young and strong man's job.
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Post by Ralph on Oct 3, 2022 13:26:59 GMT -5
Walmart has its own problems with acquiring food stuffs these days as well. There are certain products that seem to have disappeared entirely (besides Grandma Brown's Beans). Frozen carrots are seemingly impossible to get. Our large jars of GV peanut butter haven't been on the shelf in almost two years. The girl that stocks the areas I used to has never seen them and wasn't even aware we ever had that size. Meats are catch as catch can and frozen potato products are hard to get sometimes.
Between shortages and hiring folks that have no clue what they are doing (with pretty much ZERO training) you're lucky to find it even if we have it somewhere.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 3, 2022 15:48:11 GMT -5
Walmart has its own problems with acquiring food stuffs these days as well. There are certain products that seem to have disappeared entirely ( besides Grandma Brown's Beans). Frozen carrots are seemingly impossible to get. Our large jars of GV peanut butter haven't been on the shelf in almost two years. The girl that stocks the areas I used to has never seen them and wasn't even aware we ever had that size. Meats are catch as catch can and frozen potato products are hard to get sometimes. Between shortages and hiring folks that have no clue what they are doing (with pretty much ZERO training) you're lucky to find it even if we have it somewhere. As for peanut butter Ralph, I started buying peanut butter at Aldi's. It is comparable to Peter Pan. They also have smaller jars of a variety that is touted to never separate or need stirring. |
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Post by Clipper on Oct 3, 2022 19:53:48 GMT -5
The other thing that I always buy at Aldi's is Kathy's instant coffee. She has always drank Taster's Choice. Taster's Choice is about 9 or 10 bucks for a 7 or 8 ounce jar. Aldi's sells their Beaumont brand that tastes exactly like Taster's Choice and is in the same bottles for $3.76. I almost think it is made by Taster's Choice because it is in exactly the same bottle with a Beaumont label. She says if anything she likes it better than Taster's Choice.
I am not much into instant coffee, but when we travel and stay in a hotel I drink Kathy's coffee. She always brings a hot shot to heat the water and her coffee is far better than the crap they put in pouches in the rooms to make in their filthy, mineral scaled little coffee makers.
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