I've noticed a lot of places have become Sysco dependent. Are restaurants starting to taste the same? Food distributor Sysco has been on a relentless acquisition spree, becoming one of the largest companies in food service. This consolidation means higher prices for mass-produced food made. Restaurants are really trying to be aggressive with their marketing calendars and releasing new products now, Francfort said. From March to June, U.S. restaurant chains collectively launched 76 new spicy menu items, representing roughly 5% of new menu items, according to market research firm Datassential. Restaurants seem busy enough or at least they are on Fridays and Saturdays when you can't hardly get a table anywhere without a 20-30 minute wait. Genuinely think people are either more well off than they seem or lots of folks are living paycheck to paycheck or going into debt so that they can do things like eat out. Cracker Barrel is serving up a new rule for employees hitting the road: When it comes to meals, the company wants them to stick to its own restaurants. In an internal message obtained by the Wall Street Journal, the company said that employees are expected to dine at a Cracker Barrel store for all or the majority of meals while traveling, whenever practical, based on location and schedule. Unsure about other platforms but a ~6GB update dropped today for Silent Hill 2 on my PS5 Pro. No notes I can find that have been published but people are reporting the visual problems with performance mode have been rectified? At work so can't test myself. Maybe we finally got those PS5 Pro. In restaurants and barrooms across the capital, the ruling party’s apparatchiks watched and agonized as Democrats mounted a historic midterms rout. ICE, FBI, and Federal Task Force raid restaurants across East Alabama OPELIKA, Ala. (WRBL) – Federal agents executed multiple search warrants across East Alabama Tuesday morning, targeting Mexican restaurants in the Opelika-Auburn area as part of a sweeping investigation into alleged federal crimes across the state. As those restaurants are almost always tourists traps where the food isn't good. If you are not confident enough in your food to just write the name of the dish and have to take photos of it to interest clients, odds are your food sucks. Yeah that's like you're asked to throw out the food or leave. If your kids are picky, you probably need to be ordering takeout for yourself. Restaurants protecting the basic foundations of their business trumps child accommodations here. And bringing a different pizza to the pizzeria is psychotic behavior Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before you even walk in Wrexis Jul 14, 2025 Discussion EtcetEra Forum.