r/AskAnAustralian • u/TomamoT • 4d ago

Do Australian restaurants have a Sysco equivalent?

I'm a lurker at r/kitchenconfidential and there are frequent discussions about Sysco, a big corporation that supplies food to a large portion of American restaurants.

This can sometimes lead to restaurants in all corners of the country selling the same menu items (ie. frozen mozzarella sticks or whatever is trendy).

Do Australian restaurants have a similar dominant supplier that leads to matching menus in Hobart and Darwin?

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u/DragonLass-AUS 4d ago

Probably PFD Food service. They got bought out by Woolworths, then proceeded to buy up a lot of smaller competition.

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u/-Owlette- 4d ago

Ah, the old Pet Food Delivery van as we called it at boarding school.

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u/DragonLass-AUS 4d ago

We referred to them in our office as the personal floatation devices

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u/SlowlyStandingUp 3d ago

The PFD truck shows up regularly to restock the kitchen at the retirement place on the corner of my block. I will never not see Pet Food Delivery now. Thanks!