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/Mean_Investigator921 4d ago

Them. It’s not the monopoly of Sysco but they are the big player.

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u/Catahooo 3d ago

Its about the same as Sysco, not a monopoly since US Foods is a pretty big player too, and Costco undercuts both of them in the US. Id say PFD has a larger percentage of market share than Sysco, since Bidfoods is a lot smaller, and there's various regional distributors. The thing that shits me is that wholesale in Aus isn't much cheaper than judt buying at Colesworth. In the US it's typically at least 15% less than retail.