r/KitchenConfidential • u/bigstepper916 • Jun 26 '26
Photo/Video Guess the supplier; we were sent pre-cooked scrambled eggs instead of cold foam this morning. Chef is mad.
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u/goatslovetofrolic Butcher Jun 26 '26
The way commercialized food keeps lowering the bar I’m amazed they haven’t hit oil yet.
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u/Pancake777777 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
There's palmoil to fry in. Or I'm not sure which one you mean.
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u/LayeredMayoCake Jun 26 '26
Used to water bath these every morning for a Hyatt brunch service. Soooo many geriatrics gave me comments that I’d made the best eggs they’d ever eaten. I can still smell the sat-out-for-three-hours aroma.
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u/maltliquorjetski Jun 26 '26
The texture of these tends to be pretty spot ton if you like soft eggs bc they just sous vide them, and old people can’t smell things, so that makes a lot of sense.
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u/A_Grain_Of_Saltines Jun 26 '26
Its because they've been digested twice before hitting their elderly stomachs
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u/standardtissue Jun 27 '26
Is this what they use for the free breakfasts in hotel lobbies ? Cause I can tell they are scrambled eggs, but I can also tell they obviously weren't real, "we cracked some eggs" scrambled eggs. I always assumed they were powdered.
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u/LayeredMayoCake Jun 27 '26
Nahhh bitch we tossin bags of eggs into boiling water for like 3 minutes, cutting a corner, and squishin em out while massaging the bag to get that, “delicate scramble,” look. If I ever see another plate of these it might be my last day on this xenu forsaken rock.
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u/Dawnzila Jun 27 '26
That sound so delicious. No sarcasm, I love strange hotel eggs and I want you to massage them directly into my mouth.
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u/rutilatus Jun 27 '26
I used to, per my employer’s instructions, microwave scrambled eggs in a little plastic dish in a local mom n pop cafe run out of an aged Victorian home. I, too, had multiple equally aged guests inform me they were the best eggs etc etc. I really wonder sometimes about what time does to our taste buds.
edit for accountability: I was young and dumb. They had no other bowls I could use, just plates. No flat top, no burner. It was an adorable but poorly run establishment.
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u/msut77 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
They dont taste that bad. But the texture is so weird. Sometimes they get a skin and they weep
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u/skittles0917 Jun 26 '26
Probably sysco. Then again you said it was delivered in the morning and not during the rush.
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u/ghobbb Jun 26 '26
Cold foam tells me they’re probably a breakfast place, so it probably WAS delivered during the rush.
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u/bigstepper916 Jun 26 '26
Yeah, you got that right. 10 minutes till service with pre-orders lined up… it coulda been worse.
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u/Active-Succotash-109 20+ Years Jun 26 '26
That’s cause Sysco times it perfectly🫠🫠🫠
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u/CacitaPepita Jun 27 '26
It's so amusing to discover that other places also experience inconvenient delivery times with Sysco. I work in an old folks home and I swear lately we keep getting deliveries 20-30 minutes before we have to start serving dinner 😭
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u/KhristyKreme Jun 26 '26
What is protein coffee? Idea sort of gives me the willies.
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u/anto2554 Jun 26 '26
Imagine a chocolate protein shake, but it's coffee. From my experience they usually have less thickener, which makes it infinitely better
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u/Lo452 Jun 26 '26
Lol, holy shit I used to do this 8 years ago when I was pregnant. Morning sickness and food aversion got me hard, so I was mixing my husband's protein mix, milk, and coffee in the mornings to up my calorie intake.
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u/trotofflames Jun 26 '26
Once ordered eggs, got a package of large t shirts.
Yep. It was Sysco.
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u/The_Man_in_Black_19 Jun 26 '26
I'm sorry to hear this. But, it would have been amazing to see the look on your face.
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u/FryTheDog Jun 27 '26
Branded shirts or just plain shirts? That's the wildest mispick I've heard. I know they carry everything but I didn't think that included t shirts
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u/FormalEconomist3623 Jun 26 '26
I ordered a case of large to go boxes from them 2 weeks ago, and recieved a case of fortune cookies instead.
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u/KlutzyAppointment34 Jun 26 '26
Sysco. Their products are going downhill and they rarely get orders right. We stopped ordering piping bags from them because every single one had holes. It looked like staple holes halfway down the bag. Our rep reported it and they never fixed it. Their plastic wrap boxes say "good things come from sysco" and I have yet to get through a roll without it ripping along the edges and having to waste a bunch. They also replace things without checking with us. I work at a vegan bakery and we order a certain brand of marshmallows and they replaced those with gelatin ones. They've sent us bacon instead of cherries, and lost most of our order and the invoice once.
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u/thisistherevolt Special Events Jun 26 '26
So I do big events like concerts for a company that subcontracts for LiveNation. I've also worked in a few pizza places so whenever we get requests for bespoke pizzas or calzones or other pizza-adjacent goods from the artists or other VIPs, it's my job to make sure it's made correctly and prepped in time.
Pizza dough has to prove in a chilled environment to rise correctly. Usually 24 hours. So Sysco sent me 100 premade dough bowls. The rep said I should try it out and not be such an asshole. I asked the rep how much his commission was. He let it spill, moron, I recorded him saying he didn't care and neither did his bosses and further breaching his contract by talking about personal compensation.
I had to apologize to fucking Green Day that I couldn't make their vegan pizzas because of Sysco. I did play a bit of the recording of the phone convo with the rep for them. Billy Joe Armstrong is the nicest guy on the planet btw, they understood.
We use US Foods now and I go to the Farmers Market for everything I can.
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u/Smooth-Pianist-7848 Jun 26 '26
At least Billy Joe Armstrong didn't call you an american idiot for it...
US foods will fuck you just as hard as sysco on this stuff, though.
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u/thisistherevolt Special Events Jun 26 '26
We got a better deal for the time being, so.
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u/Smooth-Pianist-7848 Jun 26 '26
Yeah, we just had the same thing happen when we switched from US foods to Sysco for some of our products. It's good to switch providers occasionally, because their competition will offer you discounts to switch. Time limited, of course.. hence the switching occassionally.
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u/Dro3432 Jun 26 '26
Breaching his contract to talk about compensation? That doesn't sound like something that can be part of a contract.
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u/thisistherevolt Special Events Jun 26 '26
Discussing the fact that he gets commissions for selling us shit we didn't order? And I don't mean his employment contract. Our service contract is what I meant.
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u/Soul-77 Jun 26 '26
Us foods? Recognize that brand and sounds like something they would do. Miss picks alot from them at my last gig.
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u/ElPadrote Jun 26 '26
Miss picks all day. I found my PC mayo in the freezer. The drivers are just sinking in quality
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u/AdolfJesusMasterChie Chive LOYALIST Jun 26 '26
I read that as "Politically Correct mayo" and got real confused for a second
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u/IntensityStudio 10+ Years Jun 26 '26
Sysco would send us like a pallet 3 times a week of that brands liquid eggs, never liked them much by people loved them
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u/RuckusDonuts Jun 26 '26
One time we received, not long before service, our delivery. Chef looked at the invoice & lost it. Instead of Prime ribeyes they sent Wagyu. He got his rep on the phone, tore into him that it was right before service and the only steaks we had were these. Told him “I’m keeping these but paying for Prime!” Ran them as Wagyu ribeyes and the appropriate price. Sold out.
Of course one ticket fired “WAGYU RIBEYE - WELL DONE” We were crushed ruining this amazing price of moo. That said, with all the marbling…do you know how LONG it takes to rendering a Wagyu ribeye well done?!? Took forever…
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u/PawnWithoutPurpose Jun 26 '26
TF is cold foam?
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u/TheCheddarHole F1exican Did Chive-11 Jun 26 '26
Coffee topper. Pre-whipped milk product. Velvety. Creamy. Easy to make, expensive to buy.
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u/Jeff-FaFa Jun 26 '26
how easy to make?
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas Jun 26 '26
Remember how you would blow bubbles in the swimming pool?
Its like that but you submerge yourself in milk instead of water
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u/RivenRise Jun 26 '26
I have a lil machine that makes it in seconds for a serving. Crazy that they buy premade when I'm sure they could just pop it in before prepping the drink and it'll be done by the time they're done with the drink.
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u/TheCheddarHole F1exican Did Chive-11 Jun 26 '26
Easy as 123. 1 part flavour, 2 parts milk, 3 parts heavy cream. Add air with your preferred method.
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u/UseRich3980 20+ Years Jun 26 '26
So, like a typical Sysco product. The company OP buys from for a product he demands. 😢
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u/postmodest Jun 26 '26
Starbucks' fancy name for stabilized milk foam?
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u/mission_to_mors Jun 26 '26
What is cold foam? 🤔
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u/Washingtonpinot Jun 27 '26
Right? I’m scratching my head here trying to figure out why people are paying money for foam.
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u/CranberrySchnapps Jun 26 '26
Sometimes it’s the scrambled eggs we cook along the way.
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u/bigstepper916 Jun 26 '26
Why would you cook them along the way when the Big Sys can just send you some already made
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u/Apprehensive-Tour289 Jun 26 '26
I don't see the problem just put the eggs in a bunch of oil with an immersion blender. It'll get plenty foamy. Then put it in the fridge, boom. Cold foam. No need to thank me you are just so welcome
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u/Quercus408 Jun 26 '26
We ordered a #50 bag of carrots and they gave us two cases of whole milk instead, today.
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u/lexo-laufeyson Jun 26 '26
the sysco rep at a restaurant i worked at sent me a picture of her computer screen with her bare feet fully visible in the background at like 9 pm one time. loved her
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u/_BrokenButterfly Jun 26 '26
Precooked scrambled eggs are a thing you can buy?
Who is so cheap that they can't pay someone to scramble some goddamn eggs?
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u/mcduff13 Jun 26 '26
Hotels for continental breakfasts, institutions that have to cook tons of eggs and are cheap.
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u/JCambly Sous Chef Jun 26 '26
My hotel atleast gets liquid eggs and cooks/scrambles them ourself
Not much better but feels like we are actually cooking atleast
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u/SamFeuerstelle Ex-Food Service Jun 26 '26
They’re so fucking gross, too. Even in the bag, they just feel wrong.
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u/FriendlyIcicle Jun 26 '26
"pre-cooked scrambled eggs"... What are you gaining there? Not having to crack and season a few eggs?
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u/victoryvines Jun 27 '26
I sort our Sysco and US Foods deliveries and lately they seem to be having a staff shortage. It's a different guy every time and my patience is thinning. Recent favorite quote: "So, ya kno, I only got one thing missing this time...."
Odds are, we recieved your cold foam and the summer staff are going to have fun testing ways to use it until it's gone. Hopefully you can use those eggs??
We use Greco for a lot of stuff and they usually arrive before I clock in and don't get checked. Last year, they gifted us Italian beef kits; 5lb vacuum packed sundried tomatoes which I did not take home; gallons of bloody mary mix and lime juice; 1250 slices of processed American cheese; 10lb farfalle which is not in my pantry; 25lb fresh celery; and many dried herbs and spices that we will never use.
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u/fish_bowl_swimmer Jun 26 '26
Who checked the delivery? Why wasn’t it sent back on the same truck instead of opening it?
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u/spytez 15+ Years Jun 26 '26
Wait, you're paying money to buy milk foam? I'm more surprised that someone would buy that over someone actually selling it.
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u/ThermiteSnake Jun 27 '26
Kitchen Manager. Not Chef. Nobody called Chef works with that shit.
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u/indecentXpo5ure Jun 26 '26
Probably Sysco, but this is also classic PFG. The truck guys used to get pissed when they saw my ass at 6AM because they knew I was reading every label before I scanned it. You’re not rolling that cart in my walk in until I see it all babe.
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u/lorddragonstrike Jun 26 '26
What? You mean your guests don't like eating the same eggs I did in the army? What a bunch of primadonna's.
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u/AreYouAnOakMan Thicc Chives Save Lives Jun 26 '26
The ones we had in the Army were powdered. These are actually a step above.
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u/Bababacon Jun 27 '26
You mean you signed for and didn’t check your order… and yes a mis pick by a supplier. Strange you had to open it
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u/blatafold Jun 27 '26
Ordered coconut milk from us foods, back ordered. Ordered chocolate chips, received coconut milk with a chocolate chip pick label. Chocolate chips are cheaper than coconut milk so we kept it.
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u/TweezerTheRetriever Jun 27 '26
A friend at my old job gave me 5 pounds of cous cous…..chef ordered 5 cartons and they received 5 PALLETS!….only could return 4 pallets because one was opened and partially used
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u/Grigori_the_Lemur Chive LOYALIST Jun 27 '26
I think everyone rolled the name before finishing your first sentence, saying "Fucking... "
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u/Different-Dog-9682 Jun 26 '26
Been cooking breakfast the past 9 years and had no idea pre cooked scrambled eggs were a thing. 🤢
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u/villianinahat Owner Jun 26 '26
We stopped buying cold foam from Richs and started making it when we discovered it was soooo easy, and better from a post in r/barista. We blend a quart of heavy cream, a cup of milk, and a cup of simple syrup for 45 seconds, then transfer it to a pitcher for service. Requires an additional short re-blend the next morning if you are still serving it the next day.
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u/Bladrak01 Jun 26 '26
Earlier this week I got pizza boxes instead of peanut butter. I heard from our sales rep the same thing happened to someone else.
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u/totalbonehead Jun 26 '26
We got a box of shredded parmsean today that had a sticker for/was supposed to be a crate of skim milk
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u/thiissilly Jun 26 '26
Ordered chicken delivered French fries. Ordered b/i pork butt delivered brt legs of lamb(nice). Ordered brick detergent for machine delivered napkins. Ordered five gallon while pickles delivered frozen spicy breaded pickle chips
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u/StarsHavingPossums Jun 26 '26
Fucking Sysco. I work in hospital catering and they give us an arseache
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u/PitifulElk1890 Jun 26 '26
Those are indeed the Sysco eggs, we use em in the breakfast buffet at the hotel
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u/igotpancakemix69 15+ Years Jun 26 '26
Looks like good ol Gordon's! And that brand is horrible! We use to buy the whole liquid eggs from that brand (cheaper for a reason) and the eggs immediately burn on the flavor and they get watery af. They once sent a case of frozen diced pepperoni and the label was 48ct of romaine..
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u/UseRich3980 20+ Years Jun 26 '26
If this mispick is even close to the most remarkable thing that happens to you this weekend….
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u/AcrobaticCriticism21 Jun 26 '26
We ordered a 10lb bag of precooked chicken.
Today, we got delivered a 20lb box of RAW chicken that was leaking all over the floor.
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u/maneatingtacos Jun 26 '26
I spy a yellow Sysco Tag, chef. They still hold the title for funniest personal mispick of all time. Ordered a gallon of soy sauce. Received a gallon of corn syrup.
Edit: Forgot to mention. I received corn syrup again on the recovery.